How can adolescents cope with stress?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
- Moderate, occasional stress is biologically healthy
- Produces physical reactions that facilitate body's defense against threats
- Long exposure to stressors produces damaging physical and psychosomatic effects
- Headaches, back pain, rashes, indigestion, minor colds
- Ulcers, asthma, arthritis, high blood pressure
- People cope with stress in diverse ways
- Problem-focused coping – modify stressful situation
- Emotion-focused coping – regulate emotional response to stress
- Defensive coping – denial of situation
- Social support
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A child who does not seek proximity to the mother and, after she leaves the room, does not look distressed, is exhibiting __________.
A. avoidant attachment B. secure attachment C. Bowlby regression D. anxious attachment
Felipe is asked by his therapist to relax and talk about any thoughts that come into his head, letting his thoughts move freely from one idea to the next. Felipe's therapist is using the Freudian technique known as __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
In contrast to conventional experiments, case studies
A) always include a control group. B) only use standardized tests. C) intensively study one child or a small number of children. D) emphasize genetic over environmental influences on development.
One potential explanation for why we typically agree to requests by authority figures is that we respond to their legitimacy as authority figures in a general sense, regardless of the specific request and its context. Which of the following hypothetical findings, if confirmed by research, would most conflict with this explanation?
A. Some kinds of authority figures promote more obedience in participants than others. B. Participants rarely ask authority figures for explanations as to the purpose of the request. C. Participants seem to comply more readily to authoritative body language than to official uniforms. D. Participants assume that requests made by an authority figure are somehow relevant to their job.