STRESS

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Question 1

What type of sample did Kiecolt & Glaser obtain?

Opportunity snowball

randomvolunteer

Wrong Answer!

volunteer

Put a cat in the room

Question 2

How did Riley induce stress in mice?

Placed them on a turntable

Dangled them by their tails

Loud noise

Wrong Answer!

Place them on a turntable

Question 3

What does SRRS stand for?

Stress reactions rating scale

Social reality relativity scale

Social Readjustment rating scale

Stress research reactions survey

Wrong Answer!

Social readjustment rating scale

Question 4

What was Friedman and Roseman’s sample?

3,000 American men 39-59

3,000 Americans 39-59

3,000 American students

3,000 American women 39-59

Wrong Answer!

3,000 American men 39-59

Question 5

What personality type did Friedman and Rosenman find to be more than twice

as likely to develop CHD?

Type C Type B

Type AType D

Wrong Answer!

Type A

Question 6

What type of participant did Rahe et al use for their life changes study?

Doctors Navel personnel

Teachersstudents

Wrong Answer!

Navel personnel

Question 7

What did Cohen 1991 expose participants to and correlate with

stress?

heat noise

crowdingCommon cold

Wrong Answer!

Common cold

Question 8

Who criticised Holmes & Rahe as he believed most people do not often go through major

life events, therefore he created the alternative daily hassles scale?

Rahe et al Cohen

Delongis et al Glaser

Wrong Answer!

Delongis et al

Question 9

Who concluded that men are more prone to CHD because they respond to stressful situations in a

particular way?

Kabasa Johanssen

MarmotFriedman and Rosenman

Wrong Answer!Friedman and Rosenman

Being stressed all the time

Question 10

What is Hardiness?

Commitment, Control, challenge

Being aggressive

Not really caring that much

Wrong Answer!Commitment, Control, challenge

Question 11

Who studied two groups of workers (finishers and cleaners) and argued that Finishers

secreted higher levels of stress hormones, had higher levels of illness and

absenteeism?

Kabasa Marmot

Johanssen Friedman and Rosenman

Wrong Answer!Johanssen

Question 12

Who said that having little stress can actually damage your health?!!

Kabasa Holmes and Rahe

KannerMarmot

Wrong Answer!

Marmot

Question 13

What type of stress is continued stress?

Chronic Infinite

Severe Long lasting

Wrong Answer!

Chronic

Question 14

Who created the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SSRS)?

Brady Michenbaum

Holems and Rahe

Kabasa

Wrong Answer!

Holmes and Rahe

Question 15

Who looked at stress inoculation

training (SIT)?

Jay and Elliot Meichenbaum

KobasaFontana

Wrong Answer!

Meichenbaum

Question 16

Who believed that having a hardy personality could be turned into a stress management technique?

Maddi Funk

MeichenbaumKobasa

Wrong Answer!

Kobasa

Question 17

What are the four processes of biofeedback?

Relaxation, identification, feedback and operant

conditioning

Identification, relaxation, feedback and transfer

Feedback, relaxation, operant conditioning and transfer

Relaxation, feedback, identification and operant conditioning

Wrong Answer!Feedback, relaxation, operant conditioning and transfer

Question 18

What does GAS stand for?

General Adaptation System

General Adaptation Syndrome

Good Affective System

General Adoptive System

Wrong Answer!General Adaptation Syndrome

Resistance, fight, exhaustion

Question 19

What are the three stages of GAS, In order?

Alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Alarm, fight, flight

Acknowledge, fight, flight

Wrong Answer!Alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Question 20

What is a criticism of biofeedback?

It treats the symptoms not the cause

Its really cheap so its not that good

It has no criticism!

It isn’t that effective

Wrong Answer!It treats the symptoms not the cause

Question 21

Who gave participants nasal drops?

Cohen 1991

Kiecolt-Glaser 1984

Murstein 1977

Riley 1981

Wrong Answer!

Cohen 1991

Question 22

Hans Selye proposed a theory of how the body responds to stress over time. He called this

the _____ theory/syndrome:

general adaptation

stress delay stress response

stress reaction

Wrong Answer!general adaptation

Question 23

Studies have indicated that people who "vent" their emotions by talking about their

problems, writing about their problems, etc., are less likely to experience physical and

psychological illness.

True

no studies in this topic have been conducted

N/A - trick question

False

Wrong Answer!True

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Well done – if you can remember all this in the exam you will have your AO1 sorted!!!!