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Practice Quiz for Chapter 16

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:  This coping technique helps neutralize the fear of the unknown:
A: Social Engineering.
B: Dream Therapy.
C: Information Seeking.
D: Prayer.

2:  Hobbies, as a coping technique, can best serve to decrease stress in this way:
A: They help make order out of chaos.
B: They help divert attention away to gain clarity and insight into problems.
C: They serve as a respite from the stress of daily life.
D: The truth is that hobbies don't serve as an effective coping technique.

3:  Social engineering is really a coping mechanism to:
A: Reorganize daily behaviors to decrease the frequency of stressful encounters.
B: Change one's attitude toward social interaction.
C: Change one's social interaction by thinking it through.
D: Learn to create viable options to one's social environment.

4:  This landmark study (compensation theory) involving this group revealed the power of social support:
A: Combat Soldiers
B: Cancer Patients
C: Soccer Teams
D: September 11th victims

5:  According to Sophie Burnham, author of A Book of Angels, for prayer to be most effective it must have these components:
A: be constructed in the present tense.
B: be constructed in the positive.
C: be constructed in faith and hope.
D: A &B.
E: A & C.

6:  Information seeking as a coping technique can be as potentially dangerous as it can be helpful.
A: TRUE
B: FALSE

7:  Dreams are thought to be an effective coping technique because:
A: Dream incubation can uncover repressed emotions.
B: They conceal information which is damaging to the ego.
C: They offer insight into helping solve personal issues.
D: REM time is the most relaxing segment of sleep.

8:  Forgiveness is an effective coping technique, which helps reduce stress in the following way:
A: Relinquishes control of anger.
B: Releases toxic thoughts.
C: Subsides feelings of victimization.
D: B & C.
E: All of the above.

9:  The difference between Freud and Jung with dream interpretation is that Jung thought dreams concealed truth, while Freud thought that dreams actually revealed it.
A: TRUE
B: FALSE

10:  Dream incubation is a process where a person tries to finish a recurring dream.
A: TRUE
B: FALSE

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