KNES 342 final exam questions with
correct answers
What is resilience? CORRECT ANSWERS is the ability to adapt well when confronted
with adversity, trauma, and inordinate levels of stress in life. It represents the best in
flexibility in that strengths and resources usually held in reserve may be tapped under
circumstances requiring extraordinary effort or unusual challenges. It can also be
understood as the skills, attributes, and abilities that enable individuals to adapt to
hardships, difficulties, and challenges
How is resilience achieved? Is there a genetic component? CORRECT ANSWERS
hardiness, toughness and emotional intelligence.
What is the Multiple Intelligence Theory? CORRECT ANSWERS The concept of
emotional intelligence broadened the notion that IQ is something measured by tests.
Gardner proposed this theory, each of which capitalized on different strengths.
What is Martin Seligman's Theory as to how people interpret set-backs? CORRECT
ANSWERS set-backs actually produce learning, resilience, and growth that would not
be possible any other way. While studying how psychotherapists deal with
disappointments and setbacks with their clients, it was found that such experiences
were potentially among the most useful critical incidents in a professional's career
What are the components of resilience as described by your text? CORRECT
ANSWERS - Protective Factors
- The Hardy Personality
- The Toughening Factor
- Learned Optimism
- Emotional Resilience
- Sense of Coherence
What are scruples? CORRECT ANSWERS a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard
to the morality or propriety of a course of action.
What are "paradoxical" traits with regard to resiliency? CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Have
high expectations for yourself that lead you to reach for goals that may, at first, seem
out of reach.
2. To forgive yourself if, and when, you fall short.
3. The process of building resilience is often a long process
4. Resilient people come in many shapes and sizes.
, 5. Building resilience does not require that you be adaptable to every circumstance and
challenge you face
6. The process of building resilience is invisible.
What is a "hardy personality"? CORRECT ANSWERS These are people who could put
themselves together and continue to perform at superior levels, regardless of the
adversity they faced. overstressed executives was three Cs: commitment, challenge,
and control.
Is there ever a beneficial effect of stress for the body? CORRECT ANSWERS - It helps
boost brainpower
- It can increase immunity—in the short term
- It can make you more resilient
- It motivates you to succeed
- It can enhance child development
What is a "sense of coherence"? CORRECT ANSWERS It is composed of three
elements:
1. Comprehensibility (ability to grasp cognitively constantly changing life events and
predict their future course)
2. Meaningfulness (life makes sense emotionally, problems are seen as challenges
rather than burdens)
3. Manageability (ability to take advantage of available resources to handle life events).
What is PTSD? How does it occur? CORRECT ANSWERS Posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) is not merely an exaggerated response to trauma, but rather produces
physiological changes in the output of cortisol (which impairs the stress response),
increased sympathetic nervous system arousal, increased adrenaline, and increased
blood flow to the amygdala
Know the difference between internal and external locus of control. CORRECT
ANSWERS External locus of control- A belief that outside forces determine a person's
life and that an individual is at the mercy of his or her environment.
internal- A belief that an individual can direct self-behavior to achieve desired goals.
What is the "toughening factor"? CORRECT ANSWERS A theory that proposes using
controlled levels of incremental stress as a means to improve capacity for dealing with
life's challenges.
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