PSYC 2070 EXAM 1 KNAPP CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION PRACTICE SOLUTION
QUESTIONS VERIFIED LEARNING
RESOURCE
●● primary approach
Answer: Estimating the severity of the stressor of the stressor; How
threatening is this event to my well being? Whether it's positive,
negative or neutral
●● secondary appraisal
Answer: a person's answer to the question, "can I handle it?" -an
assessment of whether the coping abilities and resources on hand are
adequate.
●● What characteristics of events have a high likelihood of producing
stress, according to Taylor?
Answer: -events and circumstances that produce negative emotions
-situations that are uncontrollable or unpredictable
-events and circumstances that are ambigous and confusing
-having to simultaneously accomplish many tasks that strain a person's
capabilities
,●● Stress in Childhood
Answer: The pressure to make the grade
increased amounts of work and homework often means decreased
amounts physical, social, and motional development
●● Adolescent Stress
Answer: Late to bed, early to rise
sleep deprivation affects attention, memory, cognition, and response
time
●● The Stresses of Adulthood
Answer: jobs, raising a family, long-term relationships, and retirement
can all be sources of stress
●● "Sandwhich" generation
Answer: concerned with children and aging parents
(More likely to occur with daughters than with sons)
●● psychosomatic disorders
,Answer: medical problems caused by the interaction of psychological,
emotional, and physical difficulties
●● Psychoneuroimmunology
Answer: study of the relationship between the brain, the immune system,
and psychological factors
●● Examples of psychosomatic disorders
Answer: ulcers, asthma, arthritis, high blood pressure
●● What can stress cause?
Answer: -direct physiological effects
-harmful behaviors
-indirect health-related behaviors
●● promblem-focused coping
Answer: managing a threatening situation by directly changing it to
make it less stressful
●● emtion-focused coping
Answer: the conscious regulation of emotion
●● T/F Coping is aided by the presence of social support
, Answer: TRUE
●● Social Support
Answer: assistance and comfort supplied by others
●● defensive coping
Answer: unconscious strategies that distort or deny the true nature of a
situation
●● emotional insulation
Answer: people unconsciously try to block emotions and thereby avoid
pain
●● T/F Drug or alcohol abuse are not sometimes used as coping
mechanisms
Answer: FALSE
-They are often used as an unhealthy coping mechanism
●● Are weight concerns a contributor to children's and parent's stress?
Answer: YES!
-they can be a large contributor
-without proper nutrition, infants cannot reach their physical potential
EVALUATION PRACTICE SOLUTION
QUESTIONS VERIFIED LEARNING
RESOURCE
●● primary approach
Answer: Estimating the severity of the stressor of the stressor; How
threatening is this event to my well being? Whether it's positive,
negative or neutral
●● secondary appraisal
Answer: a person's answer to the question, "can I handle it?" -an
assessment of whether the coping abilities and resources on hand are
adequate.
●● What characteristics of events have a high likelihood of producing
stress, according to Taylor?
Answer: -events and circumstances that produce negative emotions
-situations that are uncontrollable or unpredictable
-events and circumstances that are ambigous and confusing
-having to simultaneously accomplish many tasks that strain a person's
capabilities
,●● Stress in Childhood
Answer: The pressure to make the grade
increased amounts of work and homework often means decreased
amounts physical, social, and motional development
●● Adolescent Stress
Answer: Late to bed, early to rise
sleep deprivation affects attention, memory, cognition, and response
time
●● The Stresses of Adulthood
Answer: jobs, raising a family, long-term relationships, and retirement
can all be sources of stress
●● "Sandwhich" generation
Answer: concerned with children and aging parents
(More likely to occur with daughters than with sons)
●● psychosomatic disorders
,Answer: medical problems caused by the interaction of psychological,
emotional, and physical difficulties
●● Psychoneuroimmunology
Answer: study of the relationship between the brain, the immune system,
and psychological factors
●● Examples of psychosomatic disorders
Answer: ulcers, asthma, arthritis, high blood pressure
●● What can stress cause?
Answer: -direct physiological effects
-harmful behaviors
-indirect health-related behaviors
●● promblem-focused coping
Answer: managing a threatening situation by directly changing it to
make it less stressful
●● emtion-focused coping
Answer: the conscious regulation of emotion
●● T/F Coping is aided by the presence of social support
, Answer: TRUE
●● Social Support
Answer: assistance and comfort supplied by others
●● defensive coping
Answer: unconscious strategies that distort or deny the true nature of a
situation
●● emotional insulation
Answer: people unconsciously try to block emotions and thereby avoid
pain
●● T/F Drug or alcohol abuse are not sometimes used as coping
mechanisms
Answer: FALSE
-They are often used as an unhealthy coping mechanism
●● Are weight concerns a contributor to children's and parent's stress?
Answer: YES!
-they can be a large contributor
-without proper nutrition, infants cannot reach their physical potential
