Quiz 4

Question 1

What have Pennebaker and his colleagues demonstrated about the acts of talking or writing about stressful experiences?
-Talking about stress events has benficial effects but writing about the has no impact.
-Talking or writing about traumatic events increasing overall stress level
-talking or writing about traumatic events can have beneficial effects.
-Talking or writing about stress leads to a sense of well-being in the short term but leads to rumination in the long term.

Answer 1

talking or writing about traumatic events can have beneficial effects.

Question 2

Which of the following describes the relationship between level of arousal and performance?
-Resistance-exhaustion hypothesis
-normal curve hypothesis
-inverted-u hypothesis
-matrix hypothesis

Answer 2

inverted-u hypothesis

Question 3

what is not likley to be a barrier to effective provider-patient communication?
-consulting a health care provider who is not the same sex as the patient
-time constraints on the length of the provider-patient interaction
-patient evasiveness about real health concerns
-the health care provider’s use of technical terminology

Answer 3

consulting a health care provider who is not the same sex as the patient

Question 4

Which one of the Big Five personality traits has been associated with greater longevity?
-Agreeableness
-extraversion
-conscientiousness
-openness to experience

Answer 4

conscientiousness

Question 5

What happens when people give up smoking?
-Their overall health risks decline reasonably quickly
-Their risk of pulmonary disease declines, but their risk of cardiovascular disease increases
-their health risks never decline to the level of those who never smoked
-their risk of cardiovascular disease declines, but their risk of pulmonary disease increases.

Answer 5

Their overall health risks decline reasonably quickly

Question 6

Matt likes to play really violent games when he is stressed, because he heard that it could help him to vent his anger and release emotional tension. Which theory is consistent with Matt’s idea?
-General adaptation syndrome
-catharsis
-rational emotive therapy
-learned helplessness

Answer 6

Catharsis

Question 7

What has been linked to suppression of anger and other emotions?
-Successful coping with stress-related events
-hardy personalities
-type A personality
-increase in health problems

Answer 7

Increase in health problems

Question 8

What was the social readjustment rating scale designed specifically to measure?
-conflict
-aggression
-change
-control

Answer 8

change