Educational Psychology Review Questions
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Educational Psychology explores the principles, theories, and research methods related to how people learn and develop within educational settings. The course examines cognitive, emotional, and social factors that influence learning processes, motivation, classroom management, and assessment. Students will gain insight into concepts such as developmental stages, learning theories, individual differences, and the impact of culture on education. By applying psychological principles, future educators and professionals will be equipped to create more effective, inclusive, and supportive learning environments.
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Stress Health and Well Being Thriving in the 21st Century 1st Edition by Rick Harrington
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Chapter 1: Stress and Health
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Q1) Explain the concept of wellness. What are four elements of wellness that are believed to lead to the highest level of life satisfaction?
Answer: Wellness encompasses a global approach to health that not only includes stress management and emotional self-regulation,but also focuses on healthy living,including exercise and proper nutrition as well as activities that promote personal growth.These may include promoting physical,mental,emotional,and spiritual well-being.When working together as a harmonic whole,these four elements of wellness are believed to lead to the highest level of life satisfaction.
Q2) Cannon and Selye paved the way for research in fields like psychoendocrinology. What do psychoendocrinologists examine?
A) The effects of psychological processes on endocrine dysfunction
B) The effects of endocrine dysfunction on mental processes
C) The relationship between stress levels and endocrine function
D) The relationship between psychological processes and endocrine function
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Positive Psychology
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Q1) Aristotle's approach is referred to as the ____ of happiness.
A) subjective well-being theory
B) hedonic theory
C) logic and reason theory
D) virtue theory
Answer: D
Q2) What is Carol Ryff's model of psychological well-being (PWB)?
Answer: Today,Carol Ryff's model of psychological well-being (PWB)embodies the eudaimonic concept,but instead of virtues,it substitutes dimensions of positive mental health.In her view a person must exhibit high levels of six dimensions of positive mental health in order to experience the highest levels of well-being.Ryff identified these six dimensions based on her understanding of classic theories of what determines good mental health along with research findings from personality,developmental,and clinical psychology.She named these dimensions self-acceptance,positive relations with others,autonomy,environmental mastery,purpose in life,and personal growth.
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Chapter 3: Stress and the Nervous System
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Q1) What is posttraumatic growth?
Answer: Not everyone suffers from PTSD or other impairments in ability to function following trauma and only a minority develop PTSD.Some may even have transcendent experiences or find meaning in suffering.In the days following the experience of psychological trauma,individuals may have at minimum subclinical symptoms or brief reactive symptoms (less intense or temporary symptoms than would be associated with PTSD),though they may have no long-term resulting functional impairment.In time,a certain percentage of people exposed to traumatic events ultimately experience positive changes.These individuals are said to have experienced posttraumatic growth.
Q2) Describe the limbic system.
Answer: The limbic system was first proposed by James Papez in 1937 and later extended by Paul MacLean as the brain's neural circuit for emotion.The system includes interconnected phylogenically primitive nuclei and parts of the neocortex that form a circle (a border or limbus)around the inner core of the brain.These structures include the hippocampus,the thalamus,parts of the hypothalamus,the amygdala,the pre-frontal cortex,and other structures such as the cingulated gurus.
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Chapter 4: Stress, Illness, and the Immune System
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Q1) What is the gold standard experimental study in medicine for determining causal relationships?
Q2) ____ refers to an invasion of the body by a harmful microorganism that can create a pathological condition in the body's tissues and systems.
A) Sickness
B) Illness
C) Disease
D) Infection
Q3) Describe cellular-mediated immunity. What are some of the cells involved in this immune strategy?
Q4) ____ are the most common white blood cells (i.e., leukocytes)constituting over 50% of the total number.
A) Monocytes
B) Basophils
C) Neutrophils
D) Eosinophils
Q5) Briefly compare the different functions of cross-sectional designs and longitudinal designs.
Q6) Explain the function of inflamation in the body.
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Chapter 5: The Impact of Stress on Health Conditions
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Q1) What are the three types of muscles in the human body?
Q2) How does irritation or injury of endothelial cells lead to lowered LDL levels?
Q3) At present, most coping strategies recommended for those with hay fever and skin allergies involve ____.
A) intravenous treatments
B) intermittent exposure
C) avoidance
D) building immunity
Q4) Are there any effective preventive therapies for tension-type headaches (TTH's)? What about treatments?
Q5) Stress is commonly believed to be associated with ____.
A) low levels of circulating cholesterol
B) high levels of circulating cholesterol
C) low levels of stagnant cholesterol
D) high levels of stagnant cholesterol
Q6) What are some of the physiological effects of anger, hostility and anxiety?
Q7) What are endothelial cells?
Q8) Describe migraine headaches.
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Q9) What is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)and how does it differ from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)?
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Chapter 6: Personality and Stress
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Q1) ____ refers to the overall enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that define an individual.
A) Personal trait
B) Disposition
C) Temperament
D) Personality
Q2) Among the Big Five, research findings are steadily converging on ____ as the most health protective.
A) agreeableness
B) conscientiousness
C) openness
D) extraversion
Q3) ____, which deals directly with the stressor or the emotions it evokes, is more effective at mitigating the effects of stress than ____ that involves escape and avoidance.
A) A low level of optimism, a low level of engagement
B) A high level of optimism, a high level of engagement
C) Engagement coping, disengagement coping
D) Disengagement coping, engagement coping
Q4) Explain differential appraisal.
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Chapter 7: Anxiety, Anger, and Depression
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Q1) Describe the medical student syndrome.
Q2) How does engaging in aerobic exercise work as a strategy for dealing with depression?
Q3) What is interpersonal psychotherapy? How many sessions does this therapy entail? What is the primary focus of the treatment?
Q4) Describe intermittent explosive disorder (IED). What health conditions are people diagnosed with IED at a greater risk of developing?
Q5) Persons with ____ are fearful of being in a public place or outside the home to the extent that it might be difficult for them to leave without embarrassment or to get help should they have a panic attack.
A) nyctophobia
B) astrophobia
C) social phobia
D) agoraphobia
Q6) The first line of drug treatment today for most forms of anxiety disorders is the SSRIs. Why?
Q7) What are the vulnerability factors for depression?
Q8) Describe interoceptive sensitivity
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Chapter 8: Interpersonal Stress
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Q1) List the stressors or risk factors that make adjustment to divorce more difficult.
Q2) Which is most true, "opposites attract" or "birds of a feather flock together"? Explain your position.
Q3) In ____, one person directs a hostile, angry, or accusatory remark toward the other which in turn prompts a negative response in kind from the targeted person. Each round of verbal exchanges leads to attack and counterattack that escalate tensions and conflict rather than lead to resolution and reduced tension.
A) positive reciprocity
B) negative reciprocity
C) demand-withdraw pattern
D) stonewalling
Q4) Describe the process of triangulation.
Q5) Define social strain.
Q6) Through what biological systems does social support have an impact?
Q7) List the moderators that serve as protective factors (i.e., shock absorbers)against the stress of the divorce.
Q8) List four classic compromise solutions.
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Q9) What are the unique challenges associated with biculturalism?
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Chapter 9: Job Stress
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Q1) In the ____ dimension of Maslach's three dimensional model of burnout, a person feels emotionally depleted, drained, and lacking in emotional resources.
A) emotional exhaustion
B) cynicism
C) depersonalization
D) reduced efficacy
Q2) According to the ____ model, the less autonomy and control (latitude to make job decisions)one has over one's significant job stressors, the more strain one experiences.
A) person-environment fit
B) job demands-control
C) effort-reward imbalance (ERI)
D) organizational injustice
Q3) Describe the Pareto principle in relation to time management strategy.
Q4) Frazzing refers to ____.
A) digital mental haze
B) frantic but ineffective multitasking
C) digital overload
D) online addiction
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Chapter 10: Cognitive and Behavioral Approaches
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Q1) Describe the process of self-forgiveness.
Q2) Define cognitive restructuring.
Q3) ____ cover broad areas "such as fairness, justice, luck, control, predictability, coherence, benevolence, and personal vulnerability" and global goals "ideals, states, or objects that people work toward being or achieving or maintaining, such as relationships, work, wealth, knowledge, and achievement."
A) Global truths
B) Situational beliefs
C) Global beliefs
D) Global meaning
Q4) Recent research indicates that human ____ hormone may play a role in the bonding process for women with their pet dogs, but not for men and their dogs.
A) parathyroid
B) oxytocin
C) norepinephrine
D) dopamine
Q5) Describe the 50-item Ways of Coping scale. What coping strategies does this inventory measure?
Q6) Discuss the goodness of fit hypothesis.
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Chapter 11: Physical Activity and Exercise
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Q1) It is important to point out that in general people who are overweight will ____ from regular physical activity as people who are normal weight because weight and exercise exert relatively ____ influences on health.
A) not benefit as much, dependent
B) benefit as much, independent
C) benefit as much, dependent
D) not benefit as much, independent
Q2) What are placebo pills and how might they be used in a research study?
Q3) What is the PAR-Q and when would it be used?
Q4) One of the best ways to increase physical activity is through ____ because it does not require special facilities or expensive equipment and is the most popular form of activity among those who meet the U.S. government's recommended exercise goals.
A) weightlifting
B) walking
C) jogging
D) running
Q5) Summarize the evidence or lack thereof for the efficacy of physical exercise as a strategy to reduce anxiety and depression.
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Chapter 12: Nutrition
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Q1) Why was fiber once thought to be useless and why is this false?
Q2) What happens to sugar molecules in the body's cells?
Q3) What is comfort food and who is more likely to exhibit emotional eating in response to daily hassle stress?
Q4) What does it take to get all the vitamins and minerals necessary for good health? Do you think you get enough of them? Why or why not?
Q5) Name several different types of fat and their health benefits and risks.
Q6) ____ is the hormone secreted by the pancreas used to transport glucose to the body's cells.
A) Glycogen
B) Insulin
C) Glucogen
D) Glucose
Q7) Describe the two types of carbohydrates.
Q8) Why is obesity a health concern?
Q9) Explain complete and incomplete proteins and why this is relevant to health and certain groups of eaters.
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Q10) What is nutrient density and why is it an important concept to understand?
Q11) What are phytochemicals?
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Chapter 13: Self-Regulation Relaxation Strategies
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Q1) The process of ____ involves pairing increasingly fearful phobic images with relaxation in the mind's eye.
A) progressive desensitization
B) systematic desensitization
C) systematic training
D) autogenic training
Q2) Autogenic training involves learning a method of deep relaxation through self-hypnosis or passive concentration that centers on the ____ nervous system.
A) sympathetic
B) autonomic
C) parasympathetic
D) somatic
Q3) List the four muscle groups found in progressively abbreviated versions of muscle relaxation.
Q4) What is the basic principle of systematic desensitization?
Q5) Describe the first systematic desensitization session of working with a therapist.
Q6) Provide evidence that mental imagery rehearsal can improve sports performance.
Q7) Is systematic desensitization effective for treating phobias?
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Chapter 14: Meditation, Yoga, and Biofeedback
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Q1) What is essential hypertension? A number of behavioral approaches to the treatment of hypertension follow either a single-component or multicomponent protocol. Describe these protocols.
Q2) Provide several definitions of mindfulness.
Q3) List the two primary meditational strategies most heavily researched by Western practitioners and investigators.
Q4) During the experience of ____, meditation can evoke mystical or spiritual qualities. This can lead to an experience of an expanded consciousness, more positive thoughts, and a feeling of inner peace that is traditionally associated with the feelings of enlightenment many spiritually minded people seek.
A) time distortion
B) self-transcendence
C) present-centeredness
D) ineffability
Q5) Jean Kristeller (2007)suggests that the practice of mindfulness meditation can be divided into three aspects. Describe the second aspect, open awareness.
Q6) According to EEG results, is the meditative state the same or different from the sleep state?
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Chapter 15: Guidelines for Stress Management and Well
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Q1) List the benefits of practicing forgiveness.
Q2) Epidemiological studies indicate that the Goldilocks' amount of sleep is between ____ hours.
A) 6 and 7
B) 7 and 8
C) 8 and 9
D) 9 and 10
Q3) How can one start a 10,000 step program?
Q4) Provide tips on how to become an activarian if one is a sedentarian.
Q5) For optimal health, you should consume 45% to 65% of your total dietary intake from
A) fats
B) fiber
C) protein
D) carbohydrates
Q6) According to Walsh (2011), what does recreation involve?
Q7) What are some of the potential risks involved when undertaking altruistic behavior? Provide evidence from research studies. Are these risks sufficient to discourage one from any form of altruism?
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