Taking Charge of One's Health

Question 1

He stated that “Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health”

Answer 1

Carl Jung

Question 2

True or False:
Stress is inevitable in our lives

Answer 2

True

Question 3

This refers to events that are perceived as challenging, damaging or threatening to one’s physical or psychological well-being.

Answer 3

Stress

Question 4

This is the events where stress occurs

Answer 4

Stressors

Question 5

This how people respond to stress

Answer 5

Stress Response

Question 6

What are the two types of Stressors

Answer 6

1. Eustress
2. Distress

Question 7

This occurs when people experience positive events but requires them to adjust

Answer 7

Eustress

Question 8

This occurs when people experience negative events and make great deal of demands on them.

Answer 8

Distress

Question 9

According to them, any life event that requires people to change, adapt or adjust would likely to result in stress

Answer 9

Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe

Question 10

What are the four types of conflicts

Answer 10

1. Approach-approach conflict
2. Avoidance-avoidance conflict
3. Approach-avoidance conflict
4. Double Approach-avoidance conflict

Question 11

This type of conflict is when a person needs to choose between two options that are both attractive

Answer 11

Approach-Approach Conflict

Question 12

This type of conflict occurs when a person needs to choose between option that he or she finds unpleasant

Answer 12

Avoidance-avoidance Conflict

Question 13

This type of conflict occurs when a person needs to choose between options that have both positive and negative consequences

Answer 13

Approach-avoidance conflict

Question 14

This is what you call when people sometimes use unconscious strategies to cope with the pain and deal with anxiety.

Answer 14

Defense Mechanism

Question 15

This form of defense mechanism is done when the person exhibits behaviors that stand apart from the norm of the society and avoids most responsibilities of a good citizen.

Answer 15

Beatnik Reaction

Question 16

This form of defense mechanism is an aggressive reaction of a person such as destroying things or harming another person

Answer 16

Displacement

Question 17

This form of defense mechanism is when a person refuses to accept a painful reality or truth

Answer 17

Denial

Question 18

This form of defense mechanism is imitating the characteristics of a person he or she admires to deal with his or her insecurities

Answer 18

Identificiation

Question 19

This form of defense mechanism is avoiding negative emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects on one’s life

Answer 19

Intellectualization

Question 20

This form of defense mechanism is Attributing one’s weaknesses or shortcomings to some else

Answer 20

Projection

Question 21

This form of defense mechanism is making up plausible explanation or excuses t cover up negative feelings such as guilt

Answer 21

rationalization

Question 22

This form of defense mechanism is acting opposite to what the person truly feels

Answer 22

Reaction Formation

Question 23

This form of defense mechanism is a person reverts to an earlier psychosexual stage and begins to behave like a child

Answer 23

Regression

Question 24

This form of defense mechanism is pushing unacceptable impulses or urges into the unconscious

Answer 24

Repression

Question 25

He discovered Stress in 1935 as a syndrome occurring in laboratory rats.

Answer 25

Hans Selye

Question 26

When did Hans Selye discover stress

Answer 26

1935

Question 27

This type of Syndrome is the process your body goes through when you are exposed to any kind of stress, positive or negative

Answer 27

General Adaptation Syndrome

Question 28

What are the stages of General Adaptation Syndrome

Answer 28

1. Alarm Stage
2. Resistance Stage
3. Exhaustion Stage

Question 29

This stage occurs when our body sends signals that something isn’t right.

Answer 29

Alarm Stage

Question 30

This stage is where our physical, psychological and emotional state find ways to fight back those signals to have a renewed strength and go back to our homeostasis.

Answer 30

Resistance Stage

Question 31

This stage is which if not manage wisely will either lead to an ill-condition, mental illness or even death

Answer 31

Exhaustion Stage

Question 32

What is Homeostasis?

Answer 32

Good Health

Question 33

This occurs when a person considers two major factors that contribute in his response to stress like threatening tendency of the stress and the assessment of resources required to minimize the stress it produce

Answer 33

Cognitive Appraisal

Question 34

What are the two types of Cognitive Appraisal

Answer 34

1. Primary Appraisal
2. Secondary Appraisal

Question 35

In this stage, this is an individual tends to ask question like, “What does this stressor or situation mean?”

Answer 35

Primary Appraisal

Question 36

This stage compares to other stages actually happens simultaneously with the primary appraisal.

Answer 36

Secondary Appraisal

Question 37

True or False:
Stress always happen with cognitive appraisal

Answer 37

False

Question 38

According to this hospital, we can call ourselves as copers.

Answer 38

John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Question 39

These are not passive and helpless, they look for ways to take control of their lives

Answer 39

Copers

Question 40

What are the skills of a coper

Answer 40

1. Develop a Battery of Coping Skills
2. Time Management
3. Problem-Solving
4. Decision-Making
5. Life-Style Management

Question 41

True or false
Another way we can improve our coping mechanisms s to improve or enhance our resilience

Answer 41

True

Question 42

According to them, among those most contributing factors to resilience is having caring and supportive relationships that create love and trust.

Answer 42

American Psychological Association