5 Written Questions

1. Physical and emotional responses to stress
2. Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction
3. Pursue diseased cells (such as those infected by viruses or cancer)
4. A state of calm marked by relaxed muscles, slowed breathing and heart rate, and decreased blood pressure
5. Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also reduce stress, depression, anxiety

5 Matching Questions

1. Relative Deprivation
2. Polygraph
3. General Adaptation Syndrome
4. James-Lange Theory
5. T Lymphocytes

1. a The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves
2. b A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion
3. c Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, exhaustion (GAS)
4. d The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
5. e The type of white blood cells that form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A response of the whole organism, involving 1) physiological arousal, 2) expressive behavior, and 3) consciously experienced thoughts and feelings
   1. Type A
   2. Emotion
   3. Coping
   4. Type B
2. Maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges
   1. Stress Reaction
   2. Aerobic Exercise
   3. Catharsis Release
   4. Catharsis
3. Integrates behavioral knowledge with medical knowledge
   1. Relaxation Response
   2. Aerobic Exercise
   3. Behavioral Medicine
   4. Emotion-focused Coping
4. Certain events that cause stress
   1. Stressors
   2. Catharsis
   3. Type B
   4. Stress
5. Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people
   1. Type B
   2. Type A
   3. Stress
   4. Coping

5 True/False Questions

1. Problem-focused Coping → Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction

   True        False

2. Adaptation-level Phenomenon → Our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience

   True        False

3. Type B → Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people

   True        False

4. Complementary and Alternative Medicine → The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America

   True        False

5. Cannon-Bard Theory → The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli

   True        False