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 CDPO / KERALA PSC / PSYCHOLOGY / ADJUSTMENT, STRESS AND COPING BEHAVIOUR

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1.     One unconscious mechanism that protects us from acknowledging undesirable traits or qualities is called

Projection

 

2.     The process of …….. is one of the deliberate self-control keeping impulses, tendencies, or wishes in check and holding them privately while denying them publicly.

Suppression

 

3.     Which impulses may find socially acceptable expression through participation in physical contact sports?

Hostile

 

4.     When the person tries to transform his own ego or self after another person’s whom he likes, it becomes a case of

Identification

 

5.     Stressors are able to activate the nerve cells of the ……. So that more corticotropin-releasing factor is sent to the pituitary gland, thus increasing secretion of ACTH into the blood

Hypothalamus

 

6.     ….. arises between a motive and a person’s internal standards, rather than between two external goals.

Conflict

 

7.     When circumstances block direct attack on the cause of frustration aggression may be

Displaced

 

8.     The …….theory approach focuses not on internal conflicts but on ways in which anxiety becomes associated with certain situations via learning.

Learning

 

9.     Freud used the term …….to refer to unconscious processes that defend a person against anxiety

Defense mechanisms

 

10.  The most primitive defense against external threat is

Denial of reality

 

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11.  Who believed that repression of certain childhood impulses is universal?

Freud

 

12.  Which is the most primitive defense against internal threat?

Repression

 

13.  ……is used to describe the unpleasant emotional state that results from blocked goal-seeking, rather than the event itself.

Frustration

 

14.  …….is defined as a return to more primitive modes of behaviour, that is, to modes of behaviour characterizing a younger age.

Regression

 

15.  Any situation that threatens the well being of the organism is assumed to produce a state of

Anxiety

 

16.  Who was the first to focus on the importance of anxiety?

Freud

 

17.  Freud believed that ……..was the result of an unconscious conflict between id impulses and the constraints imposed by the ego and superego

Neurotic anxiety

 

18.  According to ………the process of the birth brings the greatest frustration in human life.

Otto Rank

 

19.  Which type of conflict involves two negative goals and is a fairly common experience?

Avoidance-Avoidance conflict

 

20.  ……….can be defined as an internal state which can be caused by physical demands on the body or by environmental and social situations which are evaluated as potentially harmful, uncontrollable, exceeding our resources for coping

Stress

 

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21.  The physical, environmental and social causes of the stress state are termed

Stressors

 

22.  Hans Selye (1956, 1976) termed the body’s response to stressors the

General adaptation syndrome

 

23.  The term ……….disorders is used when perceived stressors-mental events increase the susceptibility of the body to disease.

Psychosomatic

 

24.  Frustration-aggression is a very famous hypothesis proposed by

Dollard and Miller

 

25.  According to whom, an individual would not experience stress unless the individual perceives a situation as threatening?

Lazarus

 

26.  Holmes and Rahe developed a self-rating questionnaire to measure stressful life-events made up of …… life changes

43

 

27.  General Adaptation syndrome (GAS) is a three-stage model of reactions to stress, proposed by

Hans Selye

 

28.  Who developed a Hassles Scale?

Lazarus and his colleagues

 

29.  The …….personality is a kind of personality that is characterized by a general tendency to cope with stress by keeping negative emotions to oneself

Type-D

 

30.  The Person-Environment (P-E) Fit is

The match between characteristics of workers and characteristics of their jobs

 

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31.  A young woman leaves home to escape parental domination, only to come back to receive parental protection; her attitude toward her parents is

Ambivalent

 

32.  Stereotypy is a tendency to

Exhibit repetitive, fixated behaviour

 

33.  The term Hassles refer to

The countless minor annoying sources of everyday stress

 

34.  ……..is an internal state which can be caused by physical demands on the body or by environmental and social situations which are evaluated as potentially harmful, uncontrollable, or exceeding our resources for coping.

Stress

 

35.  Scientists claim ………..percent of our bodily disease is said to be stress-related

75

 

36.  ……….is often a factor in two of the leading causes of death, viz, heart disease and cancer

Stress

 

37.  The hassles of everyday life centering around work, family, social activities, health and finances are important

Stressors

 

38.  ………termed the body’s response to stressors the general adaptation syndrome

Hans Selye

 

39.  The alarm reaction, the stage of resistance and the stage of ……..are the three stages of the general adaptation syndrome.

Exhaustion

 

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40.  In the ……..stage, prompt responses of the body, many of them mediated by the sympathetic nervous system prepare us to cope with the stressor

Alarm reaction

 

41.  During the stage of …….certain hormonal responses of the body are an important line of defence in resisting the effects of stressors.

Resistance

 

42.  If the stressor continues to be present, the stage of …….begins, where in the body resists the effects of the continuous stressor.

Resistance

 

43.  Adrenocorticotropic hormone is secreted in the blood stream by certain cells in the

Pituitary gland

 

44.  The rate of ACTH secretion is, in part, controlled by another hormone-like chemical.

CRF

 

45.  CRF is made by certain cells in the brain structure known as the

Hypothalamus

 

46.  The corticotropin-releasing factor flows from the hypothalamus to the ……..gland through a specialized system of blood vessels.

Pituitary

 

47.  Stressors are able to activate the nerve cells of the …….so that more corticotropin releasing factor is sent to the pituitary gland, thus increasing secretion of ……into the blood.

Hypothalamus, ACTH

 

48.  ACTH stimulates cells in the outer layers of the

Pineal glands

 

49.  The outer layer of the adrenal gland is known as

Cortex

 

50.  The adrenal glands secret

Corticoid hormones

 

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