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Jordan has had straight A's throughout her high school years. She is now a senior in her second and final semester of high school and she finds herself constantly near tears. Her friends are jealous of her success and cannot understand why Jordan is acting so stressed. Jordan is feeling that she may not be able to keep her perfect grade record and that if she loses it, people will think that she is not so smart. In this case, Jordan's appraisal of the ________ is a stressor.

A) primary situation and precipitating factor
B) psychological meaning of the consequences
C) potential consequences
D) secondary situation

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Stress management, relaxation training, self-monitoring, and even marital and family counselling were all discussed as elements in the approach to substance abuse.

A) multimodal treatment
B) aversive conditioning
C) harm reduction
D) relapse prevention

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The transactional definition of stress asserts that stress is the product of cognitive, physiological, and behavioural responses that are evoked when there is a perceived imbalance between:

Research on the stages of transtheoretical model has indicated that:

Roger has joined the new fitness club in town and is very excited about his plan to get in shape. He knows he needs to increase his cardiovascular fitness as well as lose a few pounds. Which of the following situations might have the strongest influence on Roger, causing him to fail?

Most people working with substance abusers define the return to a previously harmful or undesirable behaviour pattern as a .

It appears that individuals with good social support:

The abstinence violation effect best refers to:

By definition, people who have positive views of the future and expect that things will work out well in the long run tend to possess:

Joan has been struggling with her efforts to stop taking drugs. Last night she went to a party and a lot of people were using drugs, so she broke down and took drugs as well. Now she blames herself over her failure to stop and decides that she will give up because she doesn't have the ability to quit. Joan's behaviour is good example of

Stress has been found to increase which can reduce working memory by affecting the _.

In Prochaska and DiClemente's model of the stages of change, an occasional slip back into the former behaviour pattern is known as a relapse.

Research on the influence of physical contact on fear responses in wives when they knew they might receive a shock found that physical contact reduced the fear response by acting on which area of the brain?

Which of the following is NOT a part of mindfulness?

Which of the following statements regarding relapse is true?

High dropout rates are a major problem in treating substance abuse. When a lapse occurs and is followed by a person being upset and self-blaming, it is referred to as

When faced with a stressor, J.T. tends to use emotion-focused coping and seeks social support. All else being equal, J.T. is most likely

Brianna has been pushing herself for several months now. As a single mother with a full time job during the day and college classes at night, she does not have any time for herself. Having enough money to pay the bills each month has been a source of stress for Brianna and right now there seems to be no end in sight to her financial difficulties. Lately, Brianna has been getting more viruses, aches, and pains than usual. Selye's general adaptation syndrome (GAS) suggests that Brianna is in the phase.

A is an eliciting stimulus that places demands upon us to adapt, whereas ________ is the cognitive, physiological, and/or behavioural response to that stimulus.

Rebecca's friends keep telling her that she should take it easy and decrease the stress in her life. Rebecca ignores them for the most part because she does not believe she has stressors, just migraines. It's not like she just lost her job or got a divorce; she has normal daily problems such as finding the money to get the car repaired and scheduling time to get her son to soccer practice as well as the dentist. In fact, these events are _.