Week 14 Quiz

The night before an exam, a student's heart races and she cannot sleep. In this course's terms, which statement correctly separates the stressor from the stress?

Select one.

• The racing heart is the stressor, and the exam is the stress
• The exam is the stressor, and the racing heart and lost sleep are the stress
• The exam and the racing heart are both stressors, because both are events that set off a response
• The exam is the stress, and the lost sleep is the stressor

A commuter's bus is late three mornings in a row. Which kind of stressor is this?

Select one.

• A catastrophe, because it affects many riders on the same route at once
• A significant life change, because it alters the commute
• A daily hassle, because it is small, ordinary, and repeats
• Eustress, because it is a mild stressor

Facing the same exam, Student 2 thinks, "I have no time and no notes." In Lazarus's appraisal model, which judgment is this?

Select one.

• Secondary appraisal, because it answers "Can I cope with it?"
• Primary appraisal, because it answers "Is this a threat?"
• Primary appraisal, because it is the first thought about the exam
• Secondary appraisal, because it decides whether the exam is a threat

Two students have the same exam on the same morning. One feels energized and studies with focus; the other lies awake with a racing heart. According to the appraisal model, what best explains the difference?

Select one.

• One exam was harder, so it was a bigger stressor
• Only one student's sympathetic nervous system fired
• The second student was already in the exhaustion stage of the general adaptation syndrome
• Each student appraised the same event differently, as a challenge or a threat

A grandson caring for his grandmother after her fall manages appointments and medications for months, running on stress hormones, and from the outside he looks fine. Which stage of the general adaptation syndrome is this?

Select one.

• The alarm reaction
• The resistance stage
• The exhaustion stage of long stress
• The recovery stage

In the course's illustrative sleep and quiz-score dataset of 10 students, 3 slept fewer than 7 hours, below the guideline of about 7 to 9 hours. What percent of the students slept below the guideline?

Select one.

• 30%
• 70%
• 3%
• 7.25%

A car door swings open in front of a cyclist. She swerves, her heart pounds, and a minute later the danger has passed. Which part of the nervous system calms her body afterward?

Select one.

• The parasympathetic nervous system
• The sympathetic nervous system
• The HPA axis, through the release of cortisol
• The adrenal glands

Two drivers sit in the same traffic jam. Driver 1 is rushed and impatient but angry at no one. Driver 2 leans on the horn, assumes the other drivers are idiots, and stays angry long after parking. Based on how research narrowed the Type A finding, which statement is best supported?

Select one.

• The first driver shows the risk, because being rushed is the core of Type A
• Both drivers carry the same risk, because both fit the Type A pattern
• Neither driver shows any risk, because Type A was disproved
• The second driver shows hostility, the component most consistently associated with heart disease

A student's laptop dies the night before a paper is due. She takes a ten-minute walk and feels calmer, but the laptop is still dead. Which coping style is the walk?

Select one.

• Problem-focused coping, because it helped her feel ready to work
• Emotion-focused coping, because it manages her feelings without changing the stressor
• Problem-focused coping, because it is an action rather than a thought
• Emotion-focused coping, because it removed the stressor

In the course's illustrative sleep and quiz-score dataset, r = 0.8457. A heavy stressor that week could lead a student both to sleep less and to score lower. Which conclusion does this study support?

Select one.

• More sleep caused the higher quiz scores
• Stress caused both the short sleep and the low scores
• In this sample, more sleep was associated with higher scores, and stress is a possible third variable
• Sleep and quiz score are unrelated, because a third variable exists