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1.1 Knowledge is power - Answers✔False
1.2 The fact that the brain can shape and reshape itself is known as - Answers✔Experience-
dependent neuroplasticity
1.3 The families of professionals working in traumatically stressful occupations can develop
symptoms of secondary traumatic stress through what process? - Answers✔Emotional contagion
1.4 The resilient skill of mindfulness helps you control your mind by preventing it from thinking
about the past or worry about the future - Answers✔False
1.5 How many traumatic incidents does the average police officer witness throughout their
career? - Answers✔188
1.6 As a result of our empathizing capacity, our health can be at risk. - Answers✔True
1.7 How many physicians are estimated to die each year by suicide in the U.S.? - Answers✔300
1.8 Police officers and firefighters are more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty. -
Answers✔True
1.9 Traumatic stress can cause structural changes in the brain, which may result in a less-than-
resilient perception of the world. - Answers✔True
1.10 The families of working professionals in highly stressful occupations are also at risk, due to
what phenomenon? - Answers✔Secondary traumatic stress
2.1 What is PERT? - Answers✔Psychological and emotional resilience training
2.2 Viktor Frankl's story teaches us that - Answers✔Quality of life is not determined by external
context
2.3 The reason stress and emotional problems affect performance and success in all areas of life
is because it causes the - Answers✔Up-stairs brain goes offline
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2.4 Resiliency skills have been linked to the functional health of our - Answers✔Heart rate
variability (HRV)
2.5 Someone who believes that human qualities, like intelligence, are inherited has a growth
mindset? - Answers✔False
2.6 Post-traumatic growth goes beyond resiliency by allow us to create meaning out of tragedy, -
Answers✔True
2.7 Someone with a fixed mindset believe character strengths, skills, abilities and intelligences
can be improved through practice. - Answers✔False
2.8 The mental survival skill known as negative bias holds on to good experiences and forgets
about the bad ones - Answers✔False
2.9 If we suddenly experience a traumatic situation, what emotional state can increase the risk of
developing PTSD? - Answers✔Negative emotions (depression, anxiety, anger, etc.)
2.10 The psychological and Emotional Resilience Training (PERT) model is divided up in to
how many areas? - Answers✔Six
3.1 The sympathetic nervous system manages the body's - Answers✔Energy and survival
systems
3.2 The parasympathetic nervous system manages the body's - Answers✔Rest and relaxation
systems
3.3 "The Sympathetic-Adrenomedullary System is built to deal with what type of stressors? -
Answers✔Immediate
3.4 "The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal System is built to deal with what type of stressors? -
Answers✔Prolonged
3.5 Through the use of breath work and other techniques, we can learn to stimulate the vagus
nerve and slow our heart rate which is linked to resiliency and physiological health. -
Answers✔True
3.6 "Cells that fire together wire together" is known as the - Answers✔Hebbian Theory
3.7 The body's alarm system determines if we are safe or in danger. - Answers✔True
3.8 The sympathetic nervous system prepares or supplies the body with energy for _________
and __________ - Answers✔Fight or flight
3.9 Which component of the body's alarm system has a low road pathway to quickly activate the
body's stress and defense systems? - Answers✔Amygdala