Health & Wellness, Ninth Edition

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Practice Quizzes

These Practice Quizzes test your knowledge of the important concepts in each chapter and provide an explanation for each answer.

Please read each question and select your answer from the choices provided. You must complete all of the questions in order to view your results. At the end of each exam, you have the option to e-mail your results to your instructor.

1: Stress refers to
	A: circumstances and events that disrupt mind-body harmony
	B: the experience of the disruption of mind-body harmony
	C: diseases caused by overwork
	D: A and C

2: The mental component of stress involves
	A: interpreting a situation as threatening to one's survival and overtaxing her or his resources to cope
	B: weakening the nerve signals that control the relaxation response
	C: too many negative experiences (harm or loss situations) and not enough positive ones (challenges)
	D: the placebo effect

3: Stress-related illness is the result of
	A: stress-induced changes in the hormone and nervous systems
	B: self-harming behaviors that are intended to reduce stressful thoughts and/or feelings
	C: changes in the immune system that eventually lead to illness
	D: A, B and C

4: The physiological response to stress generally involves secretion of the pituitary hormone
	A: glucagon
	B: ACTH
	C: interferon
	D: FSH

5: Stress can contribute to illness because
	A: it inhibits the general activation syndrome
	B: it initiates the fight or flight response
	C: it requires psychological and physiological adjustment to deal with change
	D: it causes the mind and body to become exhausted

6: Strategies aimed at coping with situations that are interpreted as high threat typically involve
	A: turning to religion or faith
	B: acceptance
	C: taking action
	D: avoidance

7: The General Adaptation Syndrome, which describes how stress affects an individual, consists of these phases
	A: harm-and-loss, threat, challenge
	B: fight, flight, depression
	C: alarm, resistance, exhaustion
	D: predictability, control, outcome

8: Death of a loved one is an example of a __________ activator of stress.
	A: threat situation
	B: eustress
	C: environmental
	D: harm-and-loss

9: Stress that comes from positive experiences is called __________
	A: distress
	B: eustress
	C: harm-and-loss
	D: threat situation

10: A biological reaction to a frightening threat is the _______
	A: social support
	B: fight-or-flight Response
	C: mind-body harmony
	D: challenge situation

11: The extent to which a situation is experienced as stressful is affected by the belief in one's ability to influence the course of life.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

12: Flashbacks are a common characteristic of post traumatic stress disorder.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

13: Stress can contribute to illness by fostering unhealthy behaviors designed to lessen stressful feelings
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

14: In the fight-or-flight response, the heart rate slows and blood pressure drops
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

15: Stress activates the immune system in order to ward off stress-related illness
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

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