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Stress and Health
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Psychologists define _____________as a process by which we appraise and respond to threatening or challenging events.
What is  stress 
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The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes combine to affect our immune system and health is called _________________.
What is psychoneuroimmunology
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________refers to a variety of methods used to reduce stress.
What is Coping
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Which of the following most effectively weakens the influence of genetic risk factors for obesity? .
What is aerobic exercise
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The three phases of the general adaptation syndrome are alarm reaction, ___________, and exhaustion.-RRE
What is resistance
200
Luigi reduced the stress of testing positive for HIV by viewing his situation as a chance for a renewed religious commitment and spiritual growth. His reaction best illustrates the importance of __________ ___________
What is stress appraisal.
200
Which of the following BEST explains why stress heightens vulnerability to bacterial and viral infections?
What is Stress hormones suppress the activity of the immune system.
200
Attempting to reduce stress directly by changing the stressor is known as _____________ _______________.
What is problem-focused coping
200
Aerobic exercise has been most closely linked to a decrease in ___________.
What is depression
200
Bernard is an ambitious, highly competitive corporation lawyer who recently had a heart attack. He tends to be impatient and a perfectionist, and he gets angry over little things. Research suggests that Bernard's susceptibility to heart attacks may be most closely linked to his________
What is anger.
300
Research on stressful life events indicates that _________ _________ are at an increased risk of death in the week following their partner's death.
What is widowed people
300
Sophia hopes to minimize her stress levels, thinking it will help her to avoid ovarian cancer, which claimed the life of her grandmother. Sophia would be best advised to remember that ________________________
What is stress does not create cancer.
300
To reduce the stress he feels after failing a college course, Jeremy seeks social support from his friends and family. Jeremy's behavior best illustrates _________ _________.
What is emotion-focused coping
300
One way for people to improve their own subjective well-being is to participate in regular _________ _______
What is aerobic exercise.
300
Learned helplessness is most likely to promote ___________
What is pessimism.
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In the 1920s, Walter Cannon discovered that emotion-arousing incidents trigger an outpouring of stress hormones from the ________ glands.
What is adrenal
400
Friedman and Rosenman referred to competitive, hard-driving, impatient, and easily angered individuals as ________ personalities.
What is Type A
400
Learned helplessness is most likely to be associated with an _________ _______ ___ ___________
What is external locus of control.
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The correlation between religious involvement and life expectancy best illustrates the health value of the ______ ______.
What is faith factor
400
During the first few weeks of law school, students were observed to have stronger immune systems if they were _______.
What is optimistic
500
As you are waiting to be interviewed for a job, your heart rate, body temperature, and breathing rate begin to increase. These physiological changes are produced by activation of the ____________________ ________ _________
What is Sympathetic nervous system.
500
Persistent anger ________ the risk of heart disease, and persistent depression ________ the risk of heart disease.
What is increases; increases
500
In one famous study, 93 percent of nursing home patients became happier and more alert when they experienced ________ __________.
What is personal control
500
___________ __________refers to the tendency for our personal happiness to be heavily influenced by others' success.
What is Relative deprivation
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A general sense of happiness or life satisfaction is most unrelated to whether __________ ______ _________ ____ ____.
What is people are young or old