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: Among the basic human needs, maintenance needs involve
	A: keeping the body clean
	B: keeping a close relationship going
	C: having a job
	D: maintaining self-esteem

2: The coping strategy of judging a distressing situation as less difficult than someone else's is an example of
	A: changing your interaction with the situation
	B: changing thoughts and beliefs about the situation
	C: reducing the feelings associated with the situation
	D: engaging in denial

3: An ongoing, pervasive worry of being evaluated by others is
	A: Panic Disorder
	B: Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
	C: Social Phobia
	D: Depression

4: Which of the following is a common symptom of depression?
	A: Feelings of hopelessness
	B: Sadness with heightened mental acuity
	C: An urgent need to engage in a particular behavior
	D: Breathing fast and shallowly (hyperventilating)

5: Which is the most helpful thing to say when someone expresses thoughts of suicide?
	A: Cheer up, you've got a lot to live for.
	B: You can't be serious!
	C: Tell me more about why you want to kill yourself.
	D: None of the above. Say nothing so you don't make the situation worse.

6: Frustration occurs when a person
	A: has been attacked
	B: imagines that she or he is going to be hurt
	C: imagines that she or he was blamed for something
	D: is blocked from attaining a goal

7: Suggestions for getting a good night's sleep include
	A: getting up early during the week and sleeping in late on the weekends
	B: exercising immediately before going to sleep
	C: making the bedroom a place for sleeping only
	D: drinking alcohol an hour before going to sleep

8: Maslow's hierarchy of human needs places physiological needs at the bottom and the need for ________________ at the top.
	A: self-actualization
	B: safety
	C: affection
	D: defense mechanisms

9: Ways to deal with emotional distress that comes from not meeting basic needs are called ______________.
	A: anxiety
	B: growth needs
	C: eustress
	D: coping strategies

10: The various psychological ways to distort reality in order to cope with difficult emotions are called_____________.
	A: defense mechanisms
	B: phobias
	C: obsessive-compulsive disorder
	D: dsythemia

11: Psychotherapy is useful only if a person is gravely mentally ill.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

12: Emotions signal whether basic human needs are being met.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

13: The highest degree of emotional health comes from behaving like everyone else in society.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

14: An intense, irrational fear of something is called a phobia and not a panic disorder
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

15: Anxiety disorders are characterized by hopelessness, self-recrimination, and reduced enjoyment of activities.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

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