What is the main difference between active and avoidant coping?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Active coping tries to solve the problems at hand. Avoidant coping obstructs active coping with the problems.
Learning Objective: Describe different coping styles and their impacts on the adjustment process
Answer Location: p. 120-122, Active
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a. will suffer no ill effects whatsoever. b. need to be awakened less and less frequently as the deprivation goes on. c. will make up for the lost slow-wave sleep when allowed to sleep normally again. d. will spend more time in REM sleep to compensate.
Oxygen deprivation during delivery is associated with childhood schizophrenia
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A diagnosis of persistent depressive disorder requires that a person report both a depressed mood and:
A. uncontrollable thoughts of suicide or self-harm on a regular basis. B. either hallucinations or delusions at least once during the same period. C. at least two other symptoms that have lasted for an extended period of time. D. both behavioral and cognitive symptoms that have lasted for an extended period of time.
One’s freely chosen interpretation of reality is referred to as ______.
A. construals B. signature strengths C. desirability bias D. autonomous motivation