PSYC-1: Stress & Health Mini Quiz

The type of stress that comes from the need to adapt to the majority culture is _____ stress and _____ is the effect of positive events.

• 1. Distress; eustress

• Marginalization; stress

• Acculturative; eustress

• Eustress; acculturative

Someone who copes with stress by changing their emotional response to the stressor is engaging in _____, and negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress and frustration is called _____.

• 1. Emotion-focused coping; burnout

• Burnout; emotion-focused coping

• Problem-focused coping; burnout

• Burnout; problem-focused coping

When someone is stressed, what part of the nervous system is activated?

• Parasympathetic nervous system

• Sympathetic nervous system

• Autonomic nervous system

• Somatic nervous system

You dislike washing the dishes and folding the laundry but you must pick between one of the two. What kind of conflict is this?

• Approach-approach

• Approach-avoidance

• Avoidance-avoidance

• Multiple approach-avoidance

Creativity is hindered the most under what type of conditions?

• High pressure situations

• Low pressure situations

• Lots of hassles

• Little to no hassles

You’re trying to decide where you should go out to eat with your friends. Both of the places that you guys could potentially go to are some of your favorite restaurants. What kind of conflict is this?

• Approach-approach

• Approach-avoidance

• Avoidance-avoidance

• Multiple approach-avoidance

Which of these is NOT an example of an external frustration?

• Losses

• Rejections

• Failures

• Personal characteristics

The idea of taking out one’s frustration on some less threatening or more available target is called:

• Displaced aggression

• Escape

• Persistence

• None of the above