Chapter 6

Question 1

reality (or objective) anxiety

Answer 1

response to a perceived threat in the world

Question 2

neurotic anxiety

Answer 2

experienced when unacceptable id impulses almost break into consciousness, leading to the ego using defense mechanisms

Question 3

moral anxiety

Answer 3

response to id impulses that violate the superego’s strict moral code

Question 4

coping strategies

Answer 4

conscious efforts to reduce anxiety in the face of a perceived threat

Question 5

When do we become emotionally involved?

Answer 5

when we have reason to

Question 6

sensitizers

Answer 6

people take an active role to deal with the problem

Question 7

repressors

Answer 7

people try to avoid the problem

Question 8

problem-focused strategies

Answer 8

take care of problem to overcome anxiety

Question 9

emotion-focused strategies

Answer 9

reduce emotional distress accompanying proble

Question 10

avoidance strategies

Answer 10

push anxiety-provoking situation out of awareness

Question 11

How effective are active strategies

Answer 11

helping people cope with stressors than avoidance strategies

Question 12

How effective are avoidance strategies

Answer 12

rarely successful in reducing anxiety/stress

Question 13

frustration-aggression hypothesis

Answer 13

aggression is always a result of frustration

Question 14

psychoanalytic frustration-aggression hypothesis

Answer 14

frustration leads to indirect expressions of aggression (displacement, indirect attack, sublimation)

Question 15

what does aggression breed?

Answer 15

more aggression

Question 16

object relations theory

Answer 16

children develop unconscious representations of significant objects in environment that influence ability to develop relationships with people

Question 17

low fear of abandonment * low fear of closeness =

Answer 17

secure attachment

Question 18

catharsis

Answer 18

idea is to get aggressive tendencies out to get rid of violent atmosphere

Question 19

low fear of abandonment * high fear of closeness =

Answer 19

anxious-ambivalent/preoccupied

Question 20

high fear of abandonment * low fear of closeness =

Answer 20

disoriented/fearful

Question 21

low fear of abandonment * high fear of closeness =

Answer 21

avoidant/dismissing

Question 22

coping flexibility

Answer 22

ability to effectively utilize different coping strategies

Question 23

Who be angrier if you cut them: the person 20th in line or the person 2nd in line?

Answer 23

2nd in line

Question 24

What did object relations theory develop into?

Answer 24

attachment theory