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Chapter 5
Biological Psychology
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Biological Psychology quick quiz
Quiz 1
1. Name two biological systems involved in the
stress response.
2. Which sends faster messages, the nervous
system or hormones?
3. How do hormones travel to their target
organs?
4. Which system or pathway responds quickly
to stress, activating the autonomic nervous
system and the releasing of adrenaline?
5. Where does adrenocorticotropic hormone
come from?
6. Name two effects of adrenaline.
7. Does long-term stress enhance or impair the
immune response?
8. Do people with a low total SRRS score have
better or worse health?
9. Name the scale that measures the day-to-day
irritations that are stressful.
10. Name one thing that is associated with a
high daily hassles score, other than poor
health.
Quiz 2
1. Define ‘stress’.
2. Which sends longer lasting messages, the
nervous system or the endocrine system?
3. Which system or pathway maintains the
response to chronic stressors through the
release of cortisol in response to
adrenocorticotropic hormone?
4. What structure ultimately governs both the
sympatheticomedullary pathway and the
pituitary-adrenal system?
5. Name two effects of cortisol.
6. Name the scale that rates life events such as
the death of a partner or getting fired.
7. Name one thing that is associated with a
high SRRS score, other than poor health.
8. Give two example of daily hassles.
9. People with more hassles have worse
symptoms of stress, e.g. anxiety and
depression, than those with fewer hassles.
What helps to reduce the effect of these
hassles?
11. Are people with type B personality more or
less likely to experience stress?
10. Name a personality type other than type A
that experiences more stress.
12. Name one emotion-focused strategy for
dealing with stress.
11. Name one problem-focused strategy for
dealing with stress.
13. In general, which are more effective,
emotion- or problem-focused strategies?
12. Problem-focused strategies are generally
more effective than emotion-focused ones.
Why?
14. Name one psychological stress management
technique.
15. What do physiological stress management
techniques aim to achieve in general terms?
13. Name one physiological stress management
technique.
14. What do psychological stress management
techniques aim to achieve in general terms?
15. How does biofeedback work?
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