In general, how effective is avoidance coping for dealing with minor or transient irritations? For serious or chronic problems?
What will be an ideal response?
In general avoidance, coping is effective as a strategy for dealing with minor or transient irritations such as those that may soon go away on their own. However, for serious or chronic problems, avoidance coping only brings temporary relief from distress. It is not an effective long-term strategy.
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Those participants in Milgram's study who went to the very end of the shock meter were
a. diagnosed as abnormal by a team of psychiatrists. b. in the minority among participants in the study. c. not told that the learner had a previous heart condition. d. not found to be substantially different than those who refused to do so.
The more times an individual imagines an event, the more likely they are to believe the event really happened, even if it did not. This is known as
A) the DRM procedure. B) the misinformation effect. C) imagination inflation. D) self hypnosis.
When Regan was 10 months old, her parents divorced and her father moved to a distant city. Regan's mother, Kelly, placed Regan in a family child-care home and began working 45 to 55 hours per week
Kelly recently noticed that Regan ignores her when she picks her up from child care. What can you tell Kelly about Regan's behavior? What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following do Jack Ruby, Sirhan Sirhan, and John Wayne Gacy have in common?
A. They all used the insanity defense but were found guilty anyway. B. They were all found not guilty by reason of insanity. C. They were all involved either in the assassination of a president or a presidential candidate. D. They were all judged according to the Brawner definition of insanity.