1) Who suffers more from stress?

A) women more than men

B) well versus less educated individuals

C) high rather than low income employees

D) all of these

and 24 others

1) Who suffers more

from

stress?

A) women more than men

B) well versus less educated individuals

C) high rather than low income employees

D) all of these

2) According to Hans Selye, stress which has a beneficial effect on us is called

A) hypostress

B) hyperstress

C) distress

D) eustress

3) Some students feel distressed only in test situations. They might be said to suffer

from

A) acute stress

B) eustress

C) hypostress

D) hyperstress

4) Which term does not describe the Type A personality?

A) holds rigorous standards

B) competitive and sometimes hostile

C) forgiving and relaxed

D) distressed and time urgent

5) Diane, a keyboard specialist, adapted to her stressful job with few complaints. Now,

a year later, Diane discovers she has developed an ulcer from the demands of her

boss to meet deadlines and to type accurately. Such stress-related illnesses are likely

to occur in which stage of the general adaptation syndrome?

A) resistance

B) exhaustion

C) alarm

D) the intermediate stage

6) Attributing our unacceptable feelings to others is known as

A) repression

B) displacement

C) projection

D) denial

7) When Mohammed’s girlfriend unexpectedly broke off their relationship, he said it was

just as well because he no longer loved her. Yet, Mohammed unconsciously loved her.

Mohammed’s response is an example of

A) sublimation

B) repression

C) denial

D) reaction formation

8) Women are more likely to cope with stress through

A) medication

B) sleeping

C) social support

D) working out

9) A problem-solving response to stress that involves mutual accommodation among all

the participants is

A) substitution

B) withdrawal

C) denial

D) negotiation

10) In terms of mental disorders, most mental health professionals greatly attend to

A) the legal model of insanity

B) the person’s reputation among his or her peers

C) the statistical rarity of the behavior

D) the individual’s level of personal distress

11) During any one-year period, the proportion of adults in the general population who

are suffering from some type of psychological disorder is about

A) 1 in 3 adults

B) 1 in 10 adults

C) 1 in 20 adults

D) 1 in 4 adults

12) Sets of symptoms more common in some societies are called

A) culture-bound syndromes

B) societal syndromes

C) culture-clash syndromes

D) secular syndromes

13) The most common psychological disorders in the United States are those labeled

A) anxiety disorders

B) schizophrenic disorders

C) phobic disorders

D) bipolar disorders

14) A critical feature of obsessive-compulsive disorder is

A) anxiety about being anxious all the time

B) fear of losing control

C) an over-inflated sense of responsibility

D) fear of dirt

15) Bipolar disorder includes

A) schizophrenia and one other form of psychosis

B) two different personality disorders at the same time

C) mania and depression in the same individual

D) phobia with at least one personality disorder

16) The process of helping clients gain mastery of their unconscious conflicts through

techniques such as the analysis of transference is called

A) person-centered therapy

B) behavior therapy

C) rational-emotive therapy

D) psychoanalysis

17) Which of the following is not one of the newer forms of insight therapy?

A) behavioral therapy

B) actualization therapy

C) existential therapy

D) logotherapy

18) The notion that the people who can help you best are those who have similar prob-

lems is a common assumption in

A) contextual therapy

B) social skills training

C) gestalt therapy

D) mutual-help groups

19) Which of the following is commonly prescribed for patients suffering from a bipolar

disorder?

A) an antipsychotic drug

B) lithium

C) a tranquilizer

D) cocaine

20) Unlike psychologists, psychiatrists

A) cannot conduct family therapy

B) don’t do group therapy

C) have a Ph.D. degree

D) have a medical degree

21) People tend to overestimate the risk of death from causes such as

A) accidents

B) strokes

C) diabetes

D) heart attacks

22) What is the typical emotional sequence in the experience of death?

A) anger, resentment, denial, depression, acceptance

B) denial, resentment, bargaining, depression, acceptance

C) depression, resentment, denial anger, bargaining, acceptance

D) none of these sequences is correct

23) According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, once terminally ill patients realize they are dying,

they enter a second stage in the dying process characterized by

A) bargaining

B) depression

C) denial

D) anger

24)The emotional intensity of grief is especially likely to be expressed in physical symp-

toms among

A) younger women

B) adolescents

C) older adults

D) middle-aged adults

25) Funeral ceremonies are primarily for the benefit of

A) churches and synagogues