$20-$Winston landed a fabulous job as a financial consultant about six months ago. He is quite successful at his job and enjoys what he does, but gets extremely stressed out while at work. He knows it is not the work that is bothering him, but rather an offensive coworker. Winston's coworker always comes to his office making derogatory comments toward him. Winston does not want to mention this to his supervisor because the offensive coworker is the supervisor's son. Over time, Winston decides that he will just try to ignore the comments and not take them personally. Winston is engaging in as a coping mechanism.

a$)$ a primary appraisal

b$)$ a tertiary appraisal