Chapter Questions
True or False?College students report feeling happy about 30 percent of the time.
True or false?Exhaustion is the third stage of Selye’s general adaptation syndrome.
True or false?Some form of pain is responsible for up to 80 percent of all medical complaints in North America.
True or False?Behavioral factors are less important contributors to illness than they were a century ago.
True or false?Research on resilient children showed that authoritative parenting was the most important protective factor.
True or False?Obesity rates among young adults (18 to 29) have increased from 8 percent to 24 percent since 1971.
True or False?Wealthy people are happier in general than destitute people.
True or False?Regardless of culture, people experience suffering when their pain receptors are stimulated.
True or False?Relations between life stress measures and distress show that stress causes psychological distress.
True or False?In Hofboll et al.'s study, about 35 percent of the Israelis subjected to terrorist and rocket attacks showed resilience.
True or False?Health and intelligence are only weakly related to happiness.
True or False?As Beecher observed, fewer World War II soldiers required pain medication for their wounds than civilian surgical patients with similar wounds.
True or False?Social support is a powerful buffer against stress, and it has been shown to enhance immune system functioning.
True or False?Short-term acute stressors increase both natural and specific immunity, whereas chronic stressors increase only natural immunity.
True or False?Once people begin exercising, about 70 percent of them continue to adhere to it.
True or False?Optimism has been shown to be a major stress-protective factor that also is linked to longevity.
True or False?Of the adrenal stress hormones, cortisol has more damaging effects on the body than catecholamines.
True or False?Placebos are often as effective as pain medications in relieving pain.
True or False?Religiosity is generally found to be related to happiness.
True or False?The time-urgency component of the Type A behavior pattern is linked to the risk of coronary heart disease.
True or False?Religious beliefs can sometimes have negative effects in coping with stressors.
True or False?AIDS and HIV infection rates are highest in homosexual men.
True or False?Anxious and depressed people report higher levels of pain.
True or False?Genetic factors may contribute to one’s level of happiness.
True or False?Upward comparison tends to increase life satisfaction.
True or False?The “tend and befriend” response to stress that is characteristic in males has been linked to testosterone.
True or False?In response to intense pain, dissociative strategies are more effective than associative strategies.
True or False?Motivational interviewing is a confrontational approach that forcefully points out the dangers of healththreatening behaviors.
True or False?For patients recovering from an injury, it is best to remain inactive.
True or False?Personal success contributes more to happiness in collectivistic cultures than it does in individualistic cultures.