Me 5.1b Introduction to Health Psychology: Coping With Stress

Question 1

coping

Answer 1

alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioural methods.

Question 2

problem-focused coping

Answer 2

viewing stress as a problem and working towards a solution. When we feel control over the situation.

Question 3

emotion-focused coping

Answer 3

regulating negative emotional reactions to a stressor, rather than trying to solve the problem itself when we believe that we cannot change the situation. ex) meditating, deep breathing, or medication

Question 4

personal control

Answer 4

our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.

Question 5

learned helplessness

Answer 5

the hopelessness and passive resignation humans and other animals learn when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.

Question 6

external locus of control

Answer 6

the perception that outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate. Experienced trauma more than the internals

Question 7

internal locus of control

Answer 7

the perception that we control our own fate. Are more successful than the externals.

Question 8

self-control

Answer 8

the ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long-term rewards

Question 8

Optimists

Answer 8

Believe things are in their control, resulting in better health and more moneys.

Question 9

Pessimists

Answer 9

Believe that things are not in their control, and thus get bad things.

Question 10

Social support

Answer 10

feeling liked and encouraged by intimate friends and family.