1.What is Stress?

A.The fight-or-flight.

B.The body's primary physiological response.

C.Stress is a process whereby an individual perceives and responds to events appraised as overwhelming or threatening to one's well-being.

D.Stressors include events or situations that require us to make changes in our lives.

2.Stressors can be:

A.Occurs in three stages: alarm reaction (fight-or-flight reactions begin), resistance (the body begins to adapt to continuing stress), and exhaustion (adaptive energy is depleted, and stress begins to take a physical toll).

B.Assigning a number of life change units to life events that typically require some adjustment.

C.Minor irritations and annoyances that can build up over time.

D.Chronic (long term) or acute (short term), and can include traumatic events, significant life changes, daily hassles, and situations in which people are frequently exposed to challenging and unpleasant events.

3.The fight-or-flight response, was first identified in the early 20th century by:

A.Hans Selye

B.Richard Rahe

C.Walter Cannon

D.Thomas Holmes

4.Who developed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) to measure stress by assigning a number of life change units to life events that typically require some adjustment, including positive events?

Richard Rahe and Walter Cannon

Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe

Thomas Holmes and Hans Selye

Walter Canon and Hans Selye

5.Many potential stressors also include daily hassles, which are minor irritations and annoyances that can build up over time.

1. True
2. False

6.The sociocultural perspective looks at you, your behaviors, and your symptoms in the context of your culture and background.

True

False

7.The sociocultural perspective looks at:

Clinicians using this approach.

Ethnic minorities

Psychiatric diagnosis

Your behaviors, and your symptoms in the context of your culture and background.

8.What are several modalities of treatment?

Chronic disease that rewires the brain.

Divorce, grief, eating disorders, substance abuse:

Individual therapy, group therapy, couples therapy, and family therapy are the most common.

Compulsive drug-seeking behaviors.

9.Psychoanalysis was developed by?

Maslow

B.F. Skinner

Sigmund Freud

Thomas Holmes

10.It was once believed that people with psychological disorders, or those exhibiting strange behavior, were possessed by demons.

True

False

11.The diathesis-stress model suggests that people with an underlying diathesis, or vulnerability, for a psychological disorder are more likely than those without the diathesis to develop the disorder when faced with stressful events.

True

False

12.For centuries, psychological disorders were viewed primarily from a supernatural perspective and thought to arise from divine forces or possession from spirits.

True

False

13.Psychological disorders are thought to result largely from faulty:

Scientific advances

Biochemical bases

Biological processes

Environmental factors

14.The first edition of the DSM was published in:

1925

1952

1951

1915

15.The diagnosis and classification of psychological disorders is essential in studying and treating psychopathology. The classification system used by most U.S. professionals is:

The DSM-5.

The DVM-5

The DMS-5

The DSD-5

16.The presence of a psychological disorder is signaled by:

Mental health disorder

Physical disturbances

significant disturbances in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors;

Psychopatholog disorder

17.What are phychological disorders?

Conditions characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

The DSM-5

The classification system

Aharmful dysfunction

18.In recent years, positive psychology has emerged as an area of study seeking to identify and promote qualities that lead to greater happiness and fulfillment in our lives. These components include:

Flow, qualities and reason

Initiative, positive affect and reason

Enabling, reason and flow

Positive affect, optimism, and flow

19.Happiness is conceptualized as an:

Enduring state of mind that consists of the capacity to experience pleasure in daily life, as well as the ability to engage one's skills and talents to enrich one's life and the lives of others.

A large extent, perceived control.

Influence on promoting healthy behaviors.

Physical and mental well-being.

20.When faced with stress, people must attempt to manage or cope with it. In general, there are two basic forms of coping:

Beneficial effects of social support

Physical and mental well-being

Greater happiness and fulfillment in our lives.

Problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping.

21.Psychophysiological disorders are physical diseases that are either brought about or worsened by stress and other emotional factors.

True

False