Question 1
What type of sample did Kiecolt & Glaser obtain?
Opportunity snowball
randomvolunteer
Wrong Answer!
volunteer
Put a cat in the room
Question 2
How did Riley induce stress in mice?
Placed them on a turntable
Dangled them by their tails
Loud noise
Wrong Answer!
Place them on a turntable
Question 3
What does SRRS stand for?
Stress reactions rating scale
Social reality relativity scale
Social Readjustment rating scale
Stress research reactions survey
Wrong Answer!
Social readjustment rating scale
Question 4
What was Friedman and Roseman’s sample?
3,000 American men 39-59
3,000 Americans 39-59
3,000 American students
3,000 American women 39-59
Wrong Answer!
3,000 American men 39-59
Question 5
What personality type did Friedman and Roseman find to be more than twice as
likely to develop CHD?
Type C Type B
Type AType D
Wrong Answer!
Type A
Question 6
What type of participant did Rahe et al use for their life changes study?
Doctors Navel personnel
Teachersstudents
Wrong Answer!
Navel personnel
Question 7
What did Cohen 1991 expose participants to and correlate with
stress?
heat noise
crowdingCommon cold
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
Delongis et al Glaser
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
MarmotFriedman and Rosenman
Wrong Answer!Friedman and Rosenman
Being stressed all the time
Question 10
What is Hardiness?
Commitment, Control, challenge
Being aggressive
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
Johanssen Friedman and Rosenman
Wrong Answer!Johanssen
Question 12
Who said that having little stress can actually damage your health?!!
Kabasa Holmes and Rahe
KannerMarmot
Wrong Answer!
Marmot
Question 13
What type of stress is continued stress?
Chronic Infinite
Severe Long lasting
Wrong Answer!
Chronic
Question 14
Who created the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SSRS)?
Brady Michenbaum
Holems and Rahe
Kabasa
Wrong Answer!
Holmes and Rahe
Question 15
Who looked at stress inoculation
training (SIT)?
Jay and Elliot Meichenbaum
KobasaFontana
Wrong Answer!
Meichenbaum
Question 16
Who believed that having a hardy personality could be turned into a stress management technique?
Maddi Funk
MeichenbaumKobasa
Wrong Answer!
Kobasa
Question 17
What are the four processes of biofeedback?
Relaxation, identification, feedback and operant
conditioning
Identification, relaxation, feedback and transfer
Feedback, relaxation, operant conditioning and transfer
Relaxation, feedback, identification and operant conditioning
Wrong Answer!Feedback, relaxation, operant conditioning and transfer
Question 18
What does GAS stand for?
General Adaptation System
General Adaptation Syndrome
Good Affective System
General Adoptive System
Wrong Answer!General Adaptation Syndrome
Resistance, fight, exhaustion
Question 19
What are the three stages of GAS, In order?
Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
Alarm, fight, flight
Acknowledge, fight, flight
Wrong Answer!Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
Question 20
What is a criticism of biofeedback?
It treats the symptoms not the cause
Its really cheap so its not that good
It has no criticism!
It isn’t that effective
Wrong Answer!It treats the symptoms not the cause
Question 21
Who gave participants nasal drops?
Cohen 1991
Kiecolt-Glaser 1984
Murstein 1977
Riley 1981
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 delay stress response
stress reaction
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
no studies in this topic have been conducted
N/A - trick question
False
Wrong Answer!True
Congratulations!
Well done – if you can remember all this in the exam you will have your AO1 sorted!!!!