STRESS
Click to start
Question 1
What type of sample did Kiecolt &
Glaser obtain?
Opportunity
snowball
volunteer
random
Wrong Answer!
volunteer
Question 2
How did Riley induce stress in mice?
Placed them on
a turntable
Dangled them
by their tails
Put a cat in the
room
Loud noise
Wrong Answer!
Place them on a turntable
Question 3
What does SRRS stand for?
Stress
reactions
rating scale
Social reality
relativity scale
Stress research
reactions survey
Social
Readjustment
rating scale
Wrong Answer!
Social readjustment rating
scale
Question 4
What was Friedman and Roseman’s sample?
3,000 American
men 39-59
3,000
Americans 3959
3,000 American
women 39-59
3,000 American
students
Wrong Answer!
3,000 American men 39-59
Question 5
What personality type did Friedman and
Rosenman find to be more than twice
as likely to develop CHD?
Type C
Type B
Type D
Type A
Wrong Answer!
Type A
Question 6
What type of participant did Rahe et al
use for their life changes study?
Doctors
Navel
personnel
students
Teachers
Wrong Answer!
Navel personnel
Question 7
What did Cohen 1991 expose
participants to and correlate with
stress?
heat
noise
Common cold
crowding
Wrong Answer!
Common cold
Question 8
Who criticised Holmes & Rahe as he believed
most people do not often go through major
life events, therefore he created the
alternative daily hassles scale?
Rahe et al
Cohen
Glaser
Delongis et al
Wrong Answer!
Delongis et al
Question 9
Who concluded that men are more prone to CHD
because they respond to stressful situations in a
particular way?
Kabasa
Johanssen
Friedman and
Rosenman
Marmot
Wrong Answer!
Friedman and Rosenman
Question 10
What is Hardiness?
Commitment,
Control,
challenge
Being
aggressive
Being stressed
all the time
Not really
caring that
much
Wrong Answer!
Commitment, Control, challenge
Question 11
Who studied two groups of workers (finishers
and cleaners) and argued that Finishers
secreted higher levels of stress hormones,
had higher levels of illness and
absenteeism?
Kabasa
Marmot
Friedman and
Rosenman
Johanssen
Wrong Answer!
Johanssen
Question 12
Who said that having little stress
can actually damage your health?!!
Kabasa
Holmes and
Rahe
Marmot
Kanner
Wrong Answer!
Marmot
Question 13
What type of stress is continued stress?
Chronic
Infinite
Long lasting
Severe
Wrong Answer!
Chronic
Question 14
Who created the Social Readjustment
Rating Scale (SSRS)?
Brady
Michenbaum
Kabasa
Holems and
Rahe
Wrong Answer!
Holmes and Rahe
Question 15
Who looked at stress inoculation
training (SIT)?
Jay and Elliot
Meichenbaum
Fontana
Kobasa
Wrong Answer!
Meichenbaum
Question 16
Who believed that having a hardy
personality could be turned into a
stress management technique?
Maddi
Funk
Kobasa
Meichenbaum
Wrong Answer!
Kobasa
Question 17
What are the four processes of
biofeedback?
Relaxation,
identification, feedback
and operant
conditioning
Relaxation, feedback,
identification and
operant conditioning
Identification,
relaxation,
feedback and
transfer
Feedback,
relaxation, operant
conditioning and
transfer
Wrong Answer!
Feedback, relaxation, operant conditioning and transfer
Question 18
What does GAS stand for?
General Adaptation
General Adaptation
System
Syndrome
General Adoptive
System
Good Affective
System
Wrong Answer!
General Adaptation Syndrome
Question 19
What are the three stages of GAS, In order?
Alarm,
resistance,
exhaustion
Alarm, fight,
flight
Resistance,
fight,
exhaustion
Acknowledge,
fight, flight
Wrong Answer!
Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
Question 20
What is a criticism of biofeedback?
It isn’t that
effective
It has no
criticism!
It treats the
symptoms not the
cause
Its really cheap so
its not that good
Wrong Answer!
It treats the symptoms not the cause
Question 21
Who gave participants nasal drops?
Riley 1981
Murstein
1977
Cohen 1991
KiecoltGlaser 1984
Wrong Answer!
Cohen 1991
Question 22
Hans Selye proposed a theory of how the body
responds to stress over time. He called this
the _____ theory/syndrome:
general adaptation
stress reaction
stress response
stress delay
Wrong Answer!
general adaptation
Question 23
Studies have indicated that people who "vent"
their emotions by talking about their
problems, writing about their problems, etc.,
are less likely to experience physical and
psychological illness.
True
False
N/A - trick question
no studies in this topic
have been conducted
Wrong Answer!
True
Congratulations!
Well done – if you can remember all this in
the exam you will have your AO1 sorted!!!!
