What are your favorite or habitual techniques for coping with stress? Explain how your techniques are examples of the categories of coping from this chapter's Application (reappraisal, humor, emotional release, relaxation, lessening physiological vulnerability). Do you use any methods that don't seem to fit into any of these categories?
What will be an ideal response?
Ideally, students will provide an example from each, or several, of the coping categories, and their descriptions will reflect accurate understanding of the categories. Some examples should be identified as containing elements of more than one category. For example, a student might describe talking with a friend as a way of coping with stress. This method could be seen as a vehicle for emotional release, and it could also lead to reappraisal. Quite likely, the mechanism of humor enters into this technique as well. In order to come up with a technique that doesn't fit any of the categories, a student will probably need to be quite creative. Often, when students claim that a particular technique doesn't fit into one of the categories, it will be because they don't thoroughly understand the categories.
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N represents _____, whereas n represents _____
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