Exam 5: Defining, Measuring, and Managing Stress

Cataclysmic events, such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, can cause individuals to experience a prolonged stress response and feelings of depression and anxiety, and after such events individuals are often diagnosed with​

The term that refers to the body's maintenance of an appropriate level of activation under changing circumstances is​

​The adrenal glands are located

Individual nerve cells are called​

The experience of discrimination​

Research finds that one reason mindfulness-based mental health interventions are effective appears to be their capacity for minimizing people's tendencies to dwell on their stressful experiences. This evidence could indicate an avenue for further research to discover whether mindfulness interventions might be helpful for addressing:

Which of these jobs is ordinarily LEAST stressful?

What types of hassles arise from the psychosocial environment to produce stress?

Both Selye's and Lazarus's theories of stress suggest that stress​

Catecholamines are a class of chemicals containing epinephrine and norepinephrine.​

Cognitive behavioral therapy​

Stress has been considered as​

Which stage of the stress inoculation program involves educational, but not behavioral, components?​

Rather than make a study schedule, Erin spends a lot of time complaining to her roommates about how hard her psychology course is and how worried she is about her grade. Folkman and Lazarus would call this approach​

In what ways does social support influence health?

Lazarus and Folkman suggested that stress​

People who own a _____ are over eight times more likely to be alive a year after having a heart attack than those who do not own one.

Research has confirmed that cultural differences in personal coping strategies exist for​

The autonomic nervous system has two subdivisions:​

Several methods have been used to measure stress, but the approach taken by most health psychologists is to use​