Use the example of an upcoming exam to illustrate the difference between emotion-focused coping and problem-focused coping

What will be an ideal response?


Problem-focused coping means we try to decrease stress by solving the problem through seeking information, changing our own behavior, or taking whatever action is needed to resolve the difficulty.

Emotion-focused coping means that we do things primarily to deal with our emotional distress, such as seeking support and sympathy or avoiding or denying the situation.

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"If a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated. If a response is followed by an unpleasant consequence, it will tend not to be repeated." This is a statement of __________.

A. the law of positive reinforcement B. Rescorla's cognitive perspective C. Thorndike's law of effect D. Garcia's conditional emotional response

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A university dean is interested in measuring the research productivity of the seven members of the Psychology Department. The dean obtains the number of publications for each faculty member. They are as follows: 5, 10, 15, 15, 20, 25, and 180. If the dean wants to describe these data, which measure of central tendency would paint a misleading picture of the research productivity of the department?

A) the mean B) the median C) the mode D) the standard deviation

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Through the scientific method, psychologists attempt to determine general principles of behavior and mental processes. In this process, psychologists use ____.?

a. ?the availability heuristic b. ?inductive reasoning c. ?deductive reasoning d. ?mental sets

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Explore the relationship between family income and family function. Include a discussion of the family stress model in predicting the impact of low and high incomes

What will be an ideal response?

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