Deck 6: Stress, Contextual Change, and Disease

Question 1

Changes in the social context create stress

A) only in instances of personal loss due to death
B) in all instaces except in the begining of a friendship
C) in all imaginable situations
D) only if the individual lacks social skills

Answer 1

in all imaginable situations

Question 2

All diseases entail contextual change within the individual and are forms of stress is a false statement because

A) it is true only for infectious diseases
B) it is not true only in the case of autoimmune disorders
C) both a and b
D) none of the above

Answer 2

none of the above

Question 3

Which of the following is false about stress

A) it is a highly individual response
B) it is reducible to individual factors
C) it is not avoidable
D) it can have beneficial effects

Answer 3

it is reducible to individual factors

Question 4

Selye's early work was not focused on

A) social isolation
B) physical trauma
C) infection
D) harsh environments

Question 5

Human mobility has been viewed as a source of stress because

A) there may be changes in the aspects of the nonliving environment
B) one may encounter previously unfamiliar life forms
C) personal relationships are disrupted
D) all of the above

Question 6

Which of the following is not one of Selye's phases of the stress response

A) exhaustion phase
B) alarm reaction
C) response phase
D) resistance phase

Question 7

Critics of the concept of stress as an explantion for disease have emphasized that

A) it serves the same function as evil spirits did in earlier times
B) it is merely an intervening variable
C) its effect does not depend on individual characteristics
D) all of the above

Question 8

Context is a dynamic concept defined by where one places the boundary around a system, therefore

A) aspects of the individual cannot be context
B) thoughts can be viewed as context
C) genes cannot be regrded as context
D) the focus of analysis constitutes an aspect of context

Question 9

The textbook defines stress as fundementally the response to change in the

A) social context
B) nonliving environment
C) individual
D) all of the above

Question 10

When stress is viewed as resulting from contextual change it would be possible to avoid stress

A) by changing individual behavior
B) by living in an ultrastable context
C) both a and b
D) none of the above

Question 11

Which of the following is the most stressful event according the Holmes and Rahe scale

A) marriage
B) loss of job
C) retirement
D) foreclosure

Question 12

A more recent term used to capture the essence of stress is

A) adaptation energy
B) allostatic load
C) contextual change
D) homeostasis

Question 13

The complexity of the nonliving environment

A) continues to expand
B) remains static
C) depends on latitude
D) increases with altitude

Question 14

The concept of adaptation energy

A) is a recent invention intended to replace the concept of stress
B) refers to the fact that the ability to adapt is limitless
C) was first proposed by Cannon
D) none of the above

Question 15

The word stress was first used as a technical term in the

A) middle ages
B) writings of Walter Cannon
C) field of engineering
D) work of Hans Selye

Question 16

The state of an individual's health

A) moves along a trajectory within a multidemensional space
B) is entirely specified by organ functional characteristics
C) depends solely on behavioral lifestyle
D) is predominantly a function of genetic endowment