PSY 383 Exam 2 | Questions with Verified Answers The process of primary appraisal involves the evaluation of one's _____. meaning of the event The process of secondary appraisal involves the evaluation of one's _____. personal resources The fight-or-flight response _____. involves arousal of the...
The process of primary appraisal involves the evaluation of one's _____.
meaning of the event
The process of secondary appraisal involves the evaluation of one's _____.
personal resources
The fight-or-flight response _____.
involves arousal of the sympathetic nervous system and the endocrine system
The first phase of the general adaptation syndrome is _____.
Alarm
The last phase of the general adaptation syndrome is _____.
Exhaustion
The correct sequence of phases of the general adaptation syndrome is _____.
alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
According to Selye (1956, 1976), the _____ phase of the general adaptation syndrome
is responsible for the person becoming mobilized to meet the threat.
alarm
According to Selye (1956, 1976), the _____ phase of the general adaptation syndrome
is responsible for the person making efforts to cope with the threat.
resistance
According to Selye (1956, 1976), the _____ phase of the general adaptation syndrome
occurs if the person fails to overcome the threat and depletes its physiological
resources in the process of trying.
Exhaustion
According to its critics, Selye's (1956, 1976) model _____.
fails to consider the role of psychological appraisal in stress
One of the criticisms of Selye's model concerns the fact that _____ produce the same
endocrinological responses.
not all stressors
, The _____ response to stress is especially characteristic of females, related to the
release of the stress hormone, oxytocin, and may be necessary in the protection of
offspring.
tend-and-befriend
The primary biological factor in the tend-and-befriend mechanism is _____.
Oxytocin
Of the four most important pathways by which stress affects health, the first one to
occur is usually related to _____.
Physiology
Of the four most important pathways by which stress affects health, the last one to
occur is usually related to _____.
health care
The correct order of the pathways by which stress affects health is _____.
physiology, health behaviors, psychosocial resources, and health care
The adrenal cortex produces _____ in response to stress.
Glucocorticoids
Activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis results in the secretion of
_____.
Cortisol
Research suggests that individual differences in reactivity to stress are related to
individual differences in _____.
acute and chronic illness
A high waist-to-hip ratio is an indication of a:
high allostatic load
A low plasma fibrinogen is an indication of a _____.
low allostatic load
Studies of vulnerable populations, e.g., children, older adults, exposed to a chronic
stressor indicate they _____.
exhibit little adaptation to chronic stressors
The _____ paradigm takes people into the laboratory, exposes them to short-term
stressful events, and then observes the impact of that stress on their physiological,
neuroendocrine, and psychological responses.
acute stress
Professor Woster brings his participants into the laboratory, attaches electrodes and
sensors to them, and has them play a computer game. One group of participants hears
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