PSYC 11

Question 1

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.

Answer 1

Stress

Question 2

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Answer 2

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

Question 3

Under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend).

Answer 3

Tend and Befriend

Question 4

A subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavior medicine.

Answer 4

Health Psychology

Question 5

The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together and affect the immune system and resulting health.

Answer 5

Psychoneuroimmunology

Question 6

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries.

Answer 6

Coronary Heart Disease

Question 7

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

Answer 7

Type A

Question 8

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people.

Answer 8

Type B

Question 9

In psychology, the idea that “releasing” aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.

Answer 9

Catharsis

Question 10

Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.

Answer 10

Coping

Question 11

Attempting to alleviate stress directly - by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.

Answer 11

Problem-Focused Coping

Question 12

Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one’s stress reaction.

Answer 12

Emotion-Focused Coping

Question 13

The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.

Answer 13

Learned Helplessness

Question 14

The perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate.

Answer 14

External Locus of Control

Question 15

The perception that you control your own fate.

Answer 15

Internal Locus of Control

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Self-Control

Question 17

Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety.

Answer 17

Aerobic Exercise

Question 18

People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.

Answer 18

Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon

Question 19

The scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to flourish.

Answer 19

Positive Psychology

Question 20

Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people’s quality of life.

Answer 20

Subjective Well-Being

Question 21

Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.

Answer 21

Adaptation-Level Phenomenon

Question 22

The perception that one is worse of relative to those with whom one compares oneself.

Answer 22

Relative Deprivation