Why are stressors such as airplane crashes more stressful than a fire?
A) After a fire, people receive more social and financial support than after a crash.
B) There is less publicity after a fire, so people don relive the experience over and over as they doin an
airplane crash.
C) People tend to take something like an airplane crash more personally than they do a fire.
D) After a fire, people can often find some positive aspect, such as that the family survived or the fire
didn spread it is harder to do this with an airplane crash.
Question 2Most people with schizophrenia
A) develop other disorders.
B) continue to show signs of illness.
C) remain hospitalized for the rest of their lives.
D) are cured.
Question 3The reciprocal influence model of alcohol use suggests that
A) alcoholics are especially intolerant of stress, and thus susceptible to the tension-reducing properties
of alcohol.
B) the final common pathway of alcohol use is motivation.
C) expectancies of social benefit can influence adolescents to begin or to continue drinking.
D) marital partners may enable one another to continue drinking.
Question 4A lack of body distortions amongst the Amish
A) suggests that there should be a low prevalence of eating disorders amongst these peoples.
B) indicates that the Amish do not value physical beauty.
C) suggests that the influence of the Western media is not as great as commonly perceived.
D) provides evidence against a role for sociocultural factors in the development of eating disorders.
Question 5Charlotte suffers from intense anxiety. How would Freud explain this anxiety? In your answer, describe the different
parts of the personality from a Freudian perspective, and how these parts of personality interact to produce anxiety.
What will be an ideal response?
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