PSYC 2301: Test #4 UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Kirima has earned her doctorate in health psychology. Which of the following research questions
might she be most likely to investigate?
a. Why are college students more prone to doing drugs when they take harder classes?
b. What is the relationship between one's ethnicity and their political affiliation?
c. Are men or women better drivers?
d. What is the relationship between a person's age and the number of years it takes them to get an
undergraduate degree? - CORRECT ANSWER - a. Why are college students more prone
to doing drugs when they take harder classes?
Steven doesn't think that his actions will help change his stressful job. Instead, he adopts the
"Smile— the world looks brighter when you do!" coping style to deal with his stress. He is using
what type of coping style?
a. emotion-focused
b. problem-focused
c. decision-focused
d. avoidance-focused - CORRECT ANSWER - a. emotion-focused
Which of the following is one of the ways in which religion helps people reduce or cope with
stress?
a. Religion can provide a strong social support system.
b. Religion includes rituals that get people to dwell on their failings.
c. Most religions promote psychological defense mechanisms.
d. Religion isolates people from those who are different. - CORRECT ANSWER - a.
Religion can provide a strong social support system.
,Which of the following is one reason why living in poverty is stressful?
a. lack of meaningfulness of work
b. too many hours of unpleasant shift work
c. increased rates of disabilities due to poor prenatal care
d. difficulty assimilating to the majority culture's ways - CORRECT ANSWER - c.
increased rates of disabilities due to poor prenatal care
Which Type A personality characteristic is the key trait that is linked to heart disease?
a. hostility
b. compulsiveness
c. competitiveness
d. chronic irritability - CORRECT ANSWER - a. hostility
During the alarm stage of the general adaptation syndrome, ________.
a. the central and somatic systems are activated
b. synaptic activity and the somatic nervous system activate to send messages from the CNS to
muscles
c. the sympathetic nervous system is activated and adrenal glands release hormones
d. neurotransmitter levels and the central nervous system are activated - CORRECT
ANSWER - c. the sympathetic nervous system is activated and adrenal glands release
hormones
Researchers have found an association between daily hassles and ________.
a. colds and headaches
,b. cancer and heart disease
c. hypertension and obesity
d. heart disease and schizophrenia - CORRECT ANSWER - a. colds and headaches
The first response that people typically make to frustration is ________.
a. persistence
b. increasing efforts
c. varying efforts
d. aggression - CORRECT ANSWER - a. persistence
An urgent demand or expectation for our behavior that comes from an outside source is called:
a. anxiety
b. pressure
c. overload
d. cognitive dissonance - CORRECT ANSWER - b. pressure
One contributing factor for the increasing rise of road rage is ________.
a. acculturation
b. overcrowding
c. assimilating
d. integration - CORRECT ANSWER - b. overcrowding
After we have decided that a certain event is a stressor, we must decide how we will deal with it
and what resources are available for coping with the stressor. This process is called ________.
, a. primary appraisal
b. secondary appraisal
c. tertiary appraisal
d. distress-eustress dichotomy - CORRECT ANSWER - b. secondary appraisal
Which of the following is NOT an example of an external frustration?
a. uncontrollability
b. losses
c. rejections
d. delays - CORRECT ANSWER - a. uncontrollability
Which of the following is a mental series of exercises meant to refocus attention and achieve a
trance-like state of consciousness?
a. meditation
b. biofeedback
c. relaxation response
d. progressive relaxation - CORRECT ANSWER - a. meditation
Which part of the nervous system reacts when the human body is subjected to stress?
a. parasympathetic
b. somatic
c. sympathetic
d. central - CORRECT ANSWER - c. sympathetic
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Kirima has earned her doctorate in health psychology. Which of the following research questions
might she be most likely to investigate?
a. Why are college students more prone to doing drugs when they take harder classes?
b. What is the relationship between one's ethnicity and their political affiliation?
c. Are men or women better drivers?
d. What is the relationship between a person's age and the number of years it takes them to get an
undergraduate degree? - CORRECT ANSWER - a. Why are college students more prone
to doing drugs when they take harder classes?
Steven doesn't think that his actions will help change his stressful job. Instead, he adopts the
"Smile— the world looks brighter when you do!" coping style to deal with his stress. He is using
what type of coping style?
a. emotion-focused
b. problem-focused
c. decision-focused
d. avoidance-focused - CORRECT ANSWER - a. emotion-focused
Which of the following is one of the ways in which religion helps people reduce or cope with
stress?
a. Religion can provide a strong social support system.
b. Religion includes rituals that get people to dwell on their failings.
c. Most religions promote psychological defense mechanisms.
d. Religion isolates people from those who are different. - CORRECT ANSWER - a.
Religion can provide a strong social support system.
,Which of the following is one reason why living in poverty is stressful?
a. lack of meaningfulness of work
b. too many hours of unpleasant shift work
c. increased rates of disabilities due to poor prenatal care
d. difficulty assimilating to the majority culture's ways - CORRECT ANSWER - c.
increased rates of disabilities due to poor prenatal care
Which Type A personality characteristic is the key trait that is linked to heart disease?
a. hostility
b. compulsiveness
c. competitiveness
d. chronic irritability - CORRECT ANSWER - a. hostility
During the alarm stage of the general adaptation syndrome, ________.
a. the central and somatic systems are activated
b. synaptic activity and the somatic nervous system activate to send messages from the CNS to
muscles
c. the sympathetic nervous system is activated and adrenal glands release hormones
d. neurotransmitter levels and the central nervous system are activated - CORRECT
ANSWER - c. the sympathetic nervous system is activated and adrenal glands release
hormones
Researchers have found an association between daily hassles and ________.
a. colds and headaches
,b. cancer and heart disease
c. hypertension and obesity
d. heart disease and schizophrenia - CORRECT ANSWER - a. colds and headaches
The first response that people typically make to frustration is ________.
a. persistence
b. increasing efforts
c. varying efforts
d. aggression - CORRECT ANSWER - a. persistence
An urgent demand or expectation for our behavior that comes from an outside source is called:
a. anxiety
b. pressure
c. overload
d. cognitive dissonance - CORRECT ANSWER - b. pressure
One contributing factor for the increasing rise of road rage is ________.
a. acculturation
b. overcrowding
c. assimilating
d. integration - CORRECT ANSWER - b. overcrowding
After we have decided that a certain event is a stressor, we must decide how we will deal with it
and what resources are available for coping with the stressor. This process is called ________.
, a. primary appraisal
b. secondary appraisal
c. tertiary appraisal
d. distress-eustress dichotomy - CORRECT ANSWER - b. secondary appraisal
Which of the following is NOT an example of an external frustration?
a. uncontrollability
b. losses
c. rejections
d. delays - CORRECT ANSWER - a. uncontrollability
Which of the following is a mental series of exercises meant to refocus attention and achieve a
trance-like state of consciousness?
a. meditation
b. biofeedback
c. relaxation response
d. progressive relaxation - CORRECT ANSWER - a. meditation
Which part of the nervous system reacts when the human body is subjected to stress?
a. parasympathetic
b. somatic
c. sympathetic
d. central - CORRECT ANSWER - c. sympathetic
