Chapter 6 part 1

Question 1

What is Anxiety?

Answer 1

Unpleasant emotional experience

Question 2

What is Reality anxiety or objective anxiety?

Answer 2

Response to a perceived threat in the real world

Question 3

What is Neurotic anxiety?

Answer 3

Experienced when unacceptable id impulses are dangerously close to breaking into consciousness
*Leads the ego to use defense mechanisms

Question 4

What is Moral anxiety?

Answer 4

Brought about by the superego in response to id impulses that violate the superego’s strict moral code

          *Guilty

Question 5

Why are Defense mechanisms and coping strategies different?

Answer 5

Defense mechanisms are unconscious

Question 6

What are Coping strategies?

Answer 6

Conscious efforts to reduce anxiety in the face of a perceived threat
*Women report using more coping strategies than men
*Varies from person to person

Question 7

What is emotional involvement? And do we always do it?

Answer 7

We are always emotionally involved in something

It is important to feel these to live a rich healthy psychological life

Ex.
*Fall in love

*Commit

*Family

*Fear

*Anger

Question 8

Explain the Koriat, Melkman, Averill, & Lazarus study?

Answer 8

Testing: Capacity to turn of emotional reactions

Show: people clips of gruesome work accident (ask what they felt)
People found ways to emotionally detached (coping mechanism)
-Denial “It’s just a film”
- Focus on technical aspects “this doesn’t even look real”
(These are active strategies)

Question 9

Explain the two broad coping strategies?

Answer 9

1. Sensitizers
   
   • People take an active role to deal with the problem
2. Repressors
   
   • People try to avoid the problem

Question 10

What can active-role strategies be divided into?

Answer 10

1. *Aimed at the source of the stress
2. *Focused on the emotional reaction to the experience

Question 11

What are the three Types of Coping Strategies?

Answer 11

*Problem-focused strategies
–Intended to take care of the problem and thereby overcoming the anxiety

*Emotion-focused strategies
–Designed to reduce the emotional distress that accompanies the problem

*Avoidance strategies
–People deal with their emotions by pushing the anxiety-provoking situation out of awareness

Question 12

How effective are Active strategies?

Answer 12

*Effective in helping people cope with stressors than avoidance strategies

Question 13

How effective are Avoidance strategies?

Answer 13

*Rarely successful in reducing anxiety or helping people overcome tragedy

*Makes people more vulnerable to stress-related health problems

*Creates additional problems

Question 14

What is Coping Flexibility and Resilience?

Answer 14

effectively adjust the use of different coping strategies according to a given situation

Helps one to:
- Have higher sense of well-being
- Experience fewer emotional problem