Psychology Study Questions 18 & 19

Risky behaviors account for ________________ of early deaths

• A very small fraction

• More than half

• All

• No portion

Which of the following are typical consequences of obesity?

• Cardiovascular disease

• Kidney disease

• Diabetes

• None of these

3. Which of the following are successful measures to combat risky sexual behaviors?

• Education

• Condoms

• Neither of these

4. Which of the following are considered risky behaviors

• Smoking

• Binge drinking

• Substance abuse

• none of these

5. Which of the following mediate the “stressfulness” of a given stimulus/event/stressor?

• Duration

• Predictability

• Control-ability

• none of these

Life event scales, or self-reports of amount of life stress person has experienced over given period of time quantify stress in terms of

• Positive and negative

• Major and minor

• Long and short

• none of these

7. Major components of stress include

• Cognitive appraisals of demands and resources

• Physiological responses

• Genetic mutations

• none of these

Relative to baseline levels of resistance to stress, General Adaptation Syndrome involves

• Periods of increased resistance to stress

• Periods of decreased resistance to stress

• Permanent increases in stress resistance

• none of these

True or false: Stress can have both positive and negative effects on the immune system

• True: Acute stressors can increase natural immunity and chronic stress can weaken both natural and specific immunity

• True: Acute stressors can increase specific immunity and chronic stress can weaken both natural and specific immunity

• False: Acute and chronic stressors weaken both specific and natural immunity

• False: Acute and chronic stressors strengthen both specific and natural immunity

True or false: Stress hormones are created during exercise

• False: Cortisol is created in response to stressful life events and decreases immune function

• True: Cortisol is created in response to exercise and increases immune function

• False: Catecholamines are created in response to stressful life events and decrease immune function

• True: Catecholamines are created in response to exercise and      increase immune function