Chapter 4: Coping Flashcards
Below are three true and one false statement. Which of the following statements about the use of coping strategies is false?
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An individual’s coping strategies are influenced by situational demands.
Researchers have argued that flexibility is a desirable quality in applying coping strategies across various situations.
The right coping strategy guarantees a successful outcome.
Most people come to rely on some strategies more than others.
The right coping strategy guarantees a successful outcome.
Whether someone develops learned helplessness under conditions of unavoidable aversive events is most likely to depend on
one’s beliefs about their control over events.
the intensity of the aversive events.
conditioning experiences in childhood.
prior experience in similar circumstances.
one’s beliefs about their control over events.
Which of the following is not listed in your book as a coping pattern of limited value?
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Blaming Yourself
Using Humor
Giving Up
Indulging Yourself
Using Defensive Coping
Acting Aggressively
Using Humor
Sigmund Freud noted that people under stress sometimes let off a little of their stress through the use of several different types of defense mechanisms. For example, according to Freud, when you are mad at someone, but you re-route your anger toward a substitute target, it is called
reaction formation.
undoing
overcompensation
displacement.
rationalization.
fantasy
intellectualization
projection.
displacement.
Which of the following is the most accurate reflection of the research findings regarding catharsis?
Behaving in an aggressive manner is a good way to “blow off steam.”
Behaving in a passive-aggressive manner is an effective way to discharge pent-up emotions.
Aggressive behavior is likely to lesson frustration, but only if directed toward someone you don’t know.
Behaving in an aggressive manner tends to fuel more anger and aggression.
Behaving in an aggressive manner tends to fuel more anger and aggression.
Defense mechanisms work primarily through
learned helplessness.
promoting constructive coping whenever they are employed.
bending reality in self-serving ways.
reducing a person’s impulse control.
bending reality in self-serving ways.
Below are three true statements about using defense mechanisms to cope with stress. There is also one false statement. Pick the false statement.
Defense mechanisms typically operate at the unconscious level.
Coping by using defense mechanisms is an avoidance strategy, so it puts off a problem, rather than solving it.
The use of defense mechanisms by a person is usually considered to be an indication that the person has problems that require professional psychological treatment.
Defense mechanisms are generally considered poor ways of coping.
The use of defense mechanisms by a person is usually considered to be an indication that the person has problems that require professional psychological treatment.
As described on page 107, below are three things involved in coping strategies that are constructive. There is also a false choice. Pick the false choice.
exerting total and complete control over one’s bad habits.
learning to manage some emotional reactions to stress.
realistically appraising stress.
confronting problems directly.
exerting total and complete control over one’s bad habits.
John experiences a lot of stress at work. John is working with a couple co-workers to change the way employees at work report problems to the boss, with the idea that this change will help him experience less job stress in the future. This an example of which of the following constructive coping tactics?
exerting total and complete control over one’s bad habits.
learning to manage some emotional reactions to stress.
realistically appraising stress.
confronting problems directly.
problem-focused coping
According to Albert Ellis, when we experience emotional reactions to life events, these emotions
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result from our cognitive appraisals of the events.
result from the congruence between events and expectations.
must be experienced fully, as a part of the coping process.
are simply a natural consequence of our activation level at the time.
result from our cognitive appraisals of the events.
Which of the following is the correct order for the stages of events in Albert Ellis’s explanation of the process of catastrophic thinking?
belief system, activating event, consequence
activating event, belief system, consequence
activating event, consequence, belief system
belief system, consequence, activating event
activating event, belief system, consequence
In the YouTube video we watched in class, Albert Ellis said you cause some of your stresses by starting out with irrational assumptions. He called this musterbation. Which of the following is not one of Ellis’ examples?
Other people should always behave competently and be considerate of me
I must have love and affection from certain people
I must not work so hard.
Events should always go the way I like.
I must not work so hard.
Comparing your stressful situation with someone else’s and concluding that maybe you don’t have it so bad after all exemplifies which of the following?
reaction formation
cognitive dissonance
systematic problem solving
positive reinterpretatio
positive reinterpretation
Look at the textbook listing of coping strategies. Which of the following is not considered to be an appraisal focused strategy of coping?
positive reinterpretation
humor
seeking help
rational-emotive behavior therapy
seeking help
Which of the following is not a step in systematic problem solving?
act, while remaining flexible
try several different alternatives simultaneously
think of alternative courses of action
clarify the problem
try several different alternatives simultaneously
