Coping Process

Question 1

What is Coping?

Answer 1

refers to “efforts to master, reduce, or tolerate the demands created by stress”.

Question 2

What are some command coping patterns?

Answer 2

Giving up
Acting aggressively
Indulging yourself
Blaming yourself
Using defensive coping

Question 3

Fill in the Blank
People may develop ________ – “passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events”.
Sometimes, could then be transferred to situations in which the person is not really helpless.
This then creates a passive reaction to stressful events, rather than active problem-solving.

Answer 3

Learned Helplessness

Question 4

When people view aversive events as “out of their control”, feel helpless, and give up. this is?

Answer 4

Pessimistic explanatory style

Question 5

Which coping strategy is associated with distress?

Answer 5

Behavioral disengagment

Question 6

catastrophic thinking involves?

Answer 6

Attributing failures to personal shortcomings;
Focusing on negative feedback; and
Being overly pessimistic about the future.
This pattern perpetuates negative emotional reactions to stress.

Question 7

Define: Defense Mechanisms

Answer 7

are “largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt”.

Question 8

constructive coping reffers to?

Answer 8

efforts to deal with stressful events that are judged to be relatively healthful”.

Question 9

What are the four thing constructive coping involves?

Answer 9

1. Confronting problems directly.
2. Effort.
3. Realistic appraisals of stress and coping resources.
4. Learning to recognize and manage disruptive emotional reactions to stress
5. Learning to exert some control over potentially harmful or destructive habitual behaviors

Question 10

The three main categories of constructive coping are?

Answer 10

Appraisal-focused
Problem-focused
Emotion-focused

Question 11

How is our appraisal (or beliefs about stressful events) is critical to the coping?

Answer 11

Negative appraisals (or beliefs) are often associated with catastrophic thinking, which exaggerates the magnitude of our problems.
Positive (realistic and/or optimistic) appraisals allow constructive coping.

Question 12

Where does unrealistic negative appraisals stem from?

Answer 12

Unrealistic, negative appraisals stem from irrational assumptions we hold:
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Question 13

Can Humor be used as a stress reducer?

Answer 13

Yes, Humor can lessen the negative impact of stress on mood for many reasons:
It creates a more positive appraisal
It increases positive emotions
It facilitates positive social interactions, which reduce stress

Question 14

What are the four systematic problem-solving steps?

Answer 14

Clarify the problem.
Generate alternative courses of action.
Evaluation alternatives and select a course of action.
Take action while maintaining flexibility.

Question 15

Emotional Intelligence is?

Answer 15

“the ability to perceive and express emotion, use emotions to facilitate thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion”.

Question 16

What are the four components or emotional intelligence?

Answer 16

1. Accurately perceiving emotions in yourself and others.
2. Knowing how your emotions shape your thinking.
3. An understanding of complex or contradictory emotions.
4. Regulation of emotions, especially negative ones.

Question 17

What are the five stages of deal with death?

Answer 17

Stage 1: Denial
Stage 2: Anger
Stage 3: Bargaining
Stage 4: Depression
Stage 5: Acceptance

Question 18

What are the four stages of the grieving process?

Answer 18

Stage 1: Denial
Stage 2: Anger
Stage 3: Bargaining
Stage 4: Depression
Stage 5: Acceptance

Question 19

In what ways can you cop with loss?

Answer 19

Seek support while you are grieving.
Care for your own emotional needs while grieving.
Care for your own physical needs while grieving.
Be aware and plan for grief triggers.

Question 20

who of the following is most likely to cope with stress effectively?
A. David, who consistently relieson the same coping strategy for daily hassles.
B. Tania, who is flexible in her coping strategies depending on the situation.
C. Ricardo, who relies on catharsis to “blow off steam.”
D. Suzie, who engages iin defensive coping when the going gets tough.

Answer 20

B. Tania, who is flexible in her coping strategies depending on the situation.

Question 21

Which of the following assertions is not supported by research on the cathartic effects of media violence?
A. Playing violent video gamesreleases pent-up hosility
B. Playing violent video games is related to decreased prosocial behavior
C. Exposure to media violenc desensitizes individuals to violent acts
D. Exposure to media violence encourages aggressive responses.

Answer 21

A. Playing violent video gamesreleases pent-up hosility

Question 22

Richard feels sure that he failed his calculus exam and that he will have to retake the ourse. He is very upset. When he gets home, he orders a jumbo-side pizza and drinks two six-packs of beer. Richard's behavior illustrates which of the following coping strategies?
A. catastrophic thinking
B. Defensive coping
C. self-indulgence
D. positive reinterpretation

Answer 22

C. self-indulgence

Question 23

Defense mechanisms involve the use of to guard against negative
A. self-deception, behaviors
B. self-deception, emotions
C. self-denial, emotions
D. self-denial, behavior

Answer 23

B. self-deception, emotions

Question 24

Taylor and Brown found that normal people's self-images tend to be \_\_\_\_\_\_ depressed people's tend to be \_\_\_\_\_
A. Accurate, inaccurate
B. less favorable, more favorable
C. overly favorable, more realistic
D. more realistic, overly favorable

Answer 24

C. overly favorable, more realistic

Question 25

According to Albert Ellis, people’s emotional reactions to life events result mainly from:
A their arousal level at the time
B. thier beliefs about events
C. congruence between events and expectations
D. the consequences following events.

Answer 25

B. thier beliefs about events

Question 26

Which of the following is not listed in your text as a cause of wasted time?
A. inability to set priorities
B. inability to work diligently
C. inability to delegate responsibility
D. inabiliity to throw things away

Answer 26

B. inability to work diligently

Question 27

Wanda works at a software firm. Today her boss unfairly blmed her for the fact that a new program is way behind schedule. The unjustified public criticism really had an impact on Wanda. Later that evening, she went for a long run to get hher anger under control. Wanda is engaging in which category of coping?
A. Self-focused coping
B. appraisal-focused coping
C problem-focused coping
D. emotion-focused coping

Answer 27

D. emotion-focused coping

Question 28

Research by James Pennebaker and his colleagues suggests that wellness is promoted by:
A. depending on moremature defense mechanisms
B. Strong self-criticism
C. writing about on’s traumatic experiences
D. inhibiting the expression of anger

Answer 28

C. writing about on’s traumatic experiences

Question 29

Less anxiety about death is found among those who:
A. Feel they haven’t accomplished all that they had hoped.
B. Have a particular religious affiliation
C. Have ambivalent religious views
D. Have a well-formulated philosophy of death

Answer 29

D. Have a well-formulated philosophy of death