HONDROS NUR163 - EXAM 2 Questions and Correct Answers

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HONDROS NUR163 - EXAM 2 Questions and
Correct Answers

Question: Positive Stress is referred to as what?
Answer: Eustress


Question: Negative Stress is referred to as what?
Answer: Distress


Question: How does severe stress affect mental alertness?
Answer: Decreases alertness


Question: How does mild stress affect mental alertness?
Answer: Increases alertness


Question: What are the two basic categories of coping styles?
Answer: Problem-focused and Emotion-focused


Question: Identify the coping strategy that change or eliminate the
stressful event or threat.
Answer: Problem-focused


Question: Identify the coping strategy that change the person's
response to the stressful event or threat.
Answer: Emotion-focused


Question: What stress hormone affects the immune system?
Answer: Cortisol


Question: Identify The Defense Mechanism:


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Keeping so busy with activities (e.g. work, hobbies) that there is no time
to think about stressors.
Answer: Substitution


Question: Identify The Defense Mechanism:


Channeling negative energy into socially acceptable behaviors.
Answer: Sublimination


Question: Identify The Defense Mechanism:


Attributing one's own feelings to another (i.e. being jealous and accusing
the other person of being the jealous person)
Answer: Projection


Question: Identify The Defense Mechanism:


Conscious avoiding thinking about distressing situations, but not
completely forgetting about them.
Answer: Suppression


Question: Identify The Defense Mechanism:


Transferring emotions about one situation or person onto another (i.e.
Taking a problem or situation out on someone else.)
Answer: Displacement


Question: Identify The Defense Mechanism:


Generalizing to avoid disturbing thoughts or feelings. (e.g. separating
emotions from ideas)
Answer: Intellectualization

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