Stress and coping

Question 1

4 types of stress

Answer 1

1. Frustration
2. Conflict
3. Change
4. Pressure

Question 2

3 types of conflict

Answer 2

1. Approach-approach
2. Avoidance-avoidance
3. Approach-avoidance

Question 3

Approach-approach conflict

Answer 3

Choosing between 2 positive alternatives

Question 4

Avoidance-avoidance

Answer 4

2 negative possibilities

Question 5

What is the most stressful type of conflict

Answer 5

Avoidance-avoidance

Question 6

Approach-avoidance

Answer 6

Behaviour has positive and negative aspect

Question 7

Measurement used to assess change in people’s life

Answer 7

Social readjustment rating scale

Question 8

3 stages of General Adaptation Syndrome

Answer 8

1. Alarm response (fight or flight)
2. Stage of resistance: releasing large amounts of stress hormones over long period
3. Stage of exhaustion: trying to cope with the stressor over a long period of time resulting in negative consequences like diseases and collapse

Question 9

What happens if stress is not mitigated (what happens to the immune system)

Answer 9

Immune system is surpressed

Question 10

What is the only truly adaptive form of coping

Answer 10

Constructive coping

Question 11

What is constructive coping

Answer 11

Involves being realistic about the thing that is stressing you and confronting it head on

Question 12

Choking under pressure

Answer 12

Occurs as a result of elevated self-conciousness that interferes with the individual’s attention on the task, especially when the stakes are high

Elevated level of self awareness interferes with attention, making it harder to perform the necessary behaviour

Also makes its hard for people to control their competing thoghts

Question 13

Can you get PTSD via media

Answer 13

Adults are not susceptible but children are

Question 14

Type A people

Answer 14

Tend to react in angry or hostile way to stressors

Question 15

Type B stressors

Answer 15

Tends to be more relaxed and easy going