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The emerging consensus among contemporary
researchers is that stress is
a. a stimulus event that presents difficult demands.
b. the response of physiological arousal elicited by a
troublesome event.
c. a special stimulus-response transaction in which one
feels threatened.
d. a series of events that tend to elicit overwhelming
feelings of anxiety. - ANSWER-a special stimulus-
response transaction in which one feels threatened.
,One accepted definition of stress is
a. any potentially upsetting event that occurs in one's
environment.
b. any circumstance that threatens well-being and taxes
coping abilities.
c. any negative change that occurs in the course of life.
d. anything that causes chronic illness in organisms. -
ANSWER-any circumstance that threatens well-being and
taxes coping abilities.
Which of the following statements regarding the nature of
stress is correct?
a. Routine hassles may have significant negative effects
on mental and physical health.
,b. Major stressful events are more strongly related to
mental health than are minor hassles.
c. Most people effectively deal with everyday stress
through the use of defense mechanisms.
d. Experts generally agree that major and minor stressors
are independent of each other. - ANSWER-Routine
hassles may have significant negative effects on mental
and physical health
Lazarus's findings on hassles suggest that the effects of
stress are
a. cumulative.
b. mutually exclusive.
c. specific to different domains.
, d. inversely related to the number of demands. -
ANSWER-cumulative.
Whether or not an event is stressful is most likely to
depend on
a. how much physiological arousal it causes.
b. how much change there is.
c. how one appraises and adapts to the event.
d. whether one is prepared for the event. - ANSWER-how
one appraises and adapts to the event.
Primary appraisal is an initial evaluation of whether an
event is
a. imminent.