AP Psych: Unit 7 - Stress Coping Strategies & Illness UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers

AP Psych: Unit 7 - Stress Coping Strategies
& Illness UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Stress coping strategies - CORRECT ANSWER - can be adaptive or maladaptive



Maladaptive strategies - CORRECT ANSWER - tend to fail to remove stressors or end up
substituting stressors with others



Adaptive strategies - CORRECT ANSWER - remove stressors or allows us to better tolerate them



Locus of control - CORRECT ANSWER - how much control people feel they have over the events
in their lives



Locus of control can influence... - CORRECT ANSWER - how you cope with stress & motivation
to take action



Internal locus of control - CORRECT ANSWER - you have control over events in your life



External locus of control - CORRECT ANSWER - outside forces control events in life



Emotion-focued coping - CORRECT ANSWER - attending to emotional needs from a stressful
situation



Problem-focused coping - CORRECT ANSWER - locate and remove events that cause stress or
change how we react



Appraisal-focused coping - CORRECT ANSWER - tries to change one's perceptions on stressors