The psychological term for anticipating stressful events and taking advance steps to avoid them or minimize their impact is ________

a. proactive coping
b. reactive intervention
c. avoidance training
d. defensive coping


Answer: a

Psychology

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The empathy-helping relationship is a concept that refers to the

a. art of counseling. b. type of therapy used in crisis and emergency situations. c. tendency we have to help people when we feel compassion for them. d. tendency to foresee future events that affect our family and friends.

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Which of the following facts regarding the testing of children entering kindergarten is NOT true?

A) Children of different races and ethnicities scored similarly. B) Children from higher-income families score higher. C) The higher the mothers' level of education, the higher the children's scores. D) Children from single-parent homes tend to score lower.

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Younger adults are more likely than adults over age 50 to remember events from relatively early in life

a. True b. False

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People rely on the ____________ heuristic when they judge the frequency or probability of some event by the readiness with which similar events come to mind.

a. encoding b. representativeness c. accessibility d. availability

Psychology