Module 5.1b

Question 1

Coping

Answer 1

Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods

Question 2

Problem-Focused Coping

Answer 2

Attempting to alleviate stress directly-by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.

Question 3

Emotion-Focused Coping

Answer 3

Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction.

Question 4

Person Control

Answer 4

Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.

Question 5

Learned Helplessness

Answer 5

The hopelessness and passive resignation humans and other animals learn when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.

Question 6

External Locus of Control

Answer 6

The perception that outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate.

Question 7

Internal Locus of Control

Answer 7

The perception that we control our own fate

Question 8

Self-Control

Answer 8

The ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for geater long-term rewards