Chapter 4: Coping and Resiliency in Adulthood

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Life events may include all the following EXCEPT ______.

A. marriage

B. autobiographical information

C. stroke

D. being laid off

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Life Events as Causes of Change

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Family-related life events would not include ______.

A. having a child

B. becoming a grandparent

C. entering school

D. being diagnosed with a serious health condition

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Life Events as Causes of Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. A high probability event is ______.

A. expected but unpredictable

B. expected and predictable

C. unexpected and unpredictable

D. unexpected and predictable

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Life Events as Causes of Change

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. A couple that buys a car together is an example of ______.

A. collaborative coping

B. stress coping

C. conjoint decision-making

D. stable decision-making

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Lieberman and Peskin identified four different ways that individuals respond to life events, including ______.

A. anxiety, preoccupation/withdrawal, stagnation, changing life circumstances

B. depression, preoccupation/withdrawal, changing oneself, anxiety, changing life circumstances

C. anxiety, engagement, changing oneself, changing life circumstances

D. depression, preoccupation/withdrawal, changing oneself, changing life circumstances

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Cross-sectional studies suggested that compared to older adults, younger adults ______.

A. use more hostility and fantasy to cope

B. engage in more accommodating coping

C. more frequently use primary appraisal

D. use more distancing as coping

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. In regards to coping with loss, older adults are more likely to ______ compared to younger adults.

A. be confrontational

B. avoid reframing

C. become stagnant

D. be accepting

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Emotion-focused coping may be particularly useful while ______.

A. there is an emergency

B. seeking advice

C. making a routine purchase

D. working through an addiction

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Which of the following is an emotion-focused coping style?

A. being nondefensive

B. learning about the problem

C. seeking advice

D. being in denial

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Responses to loss can be categorized all of the following levels EXCEPT ______.

A. scientific

B. personal

C. interpersonal

D. societal

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Coping With Loss in Adulthood: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. By the time one reaches middle age, it is common to have to coped with the loss of one’s ______.

A. profession

B. material goods

C. children

D. parents

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Coping With Loss in Adulthood: An Overview

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. The legal-medical definition of death includes ______ death.

A. brain

B. perceived

C. nonclinical

D. doctor-identified

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Influences on How We Cope With Loss: How Death Is Defined

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. When a person is abandoned or isolated from others, such as in a nursing home, this may be best referred to as ______ death.

A. clinical

B. perceived

C. brain

D. social

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Influences on How We Cope With Loss: How Death Is Defined

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Individuals who experience the death of a loved one by suicide or a drug overdose may feel ______.

A. a loss of will to live

B. contentment

C. disenfranchised grief

D. a spiritual death

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Influences on How We Cope With Loss: How Death Is Defined

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Purposefully failing to do something that would extend a person’s life refers to ______.

A. active suicide

B. cancer

C. euthanasia

D. social rejection

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Meaning We Attach to Death and Dying Influences How We Cope With Loss

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Being more intrinsically religious or spiritual is associated with ______.

A. less death anxiety

B. more death anxiety

C. greater fear of others

D. greater view of a just world

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Meaning We Attach to Death and Dying Influences How We Cope With Loss

Difficulty Level: Easy

17.The manner in which we deal with a loss like a child, parent, or sibling refers to ______.

A. grief

B. bereavement

C. mourning

D. adaptation

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Coping With and Surviving Loss

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Mourning is related to ______.

A. physical practices

B. social practices

C. written documentation

D. adjustment to loss

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Coping With and Surviving Loss

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Maladaptive grief often includes ______.

A. increased engagement with others

B. brief grief

C. long-term changes in behavior

D. positive health behaviors

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Grief

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Individuals who go between coping with the loss and building a new life for themselves captures ideas included in the ______ Model.

A. restoration

B. orientation

C. Dual Process

D. memory-Trace

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Grief

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Life events are usually less stressful if they are on time.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Life Events as Causes of Change

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. A marriage-related life event may include losing a parent or a spouse through death.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Life Events as Causes of Change

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The degree to which individuals cope with stressful events is not impacted by their degree of personal, material, or interpersonal resources.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Socioemotional selectivity results from an awareness of time that leads to a shift in priorities in our relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Meaning We Attach to Death and Dying Influences How We Cope With Loss

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. The Terror Management Theory suggests that people can reduce their fear of death by engaging in the view that what happens is “controllable, fair, and just.”

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Responses to Death and Dying as Influences on Coping With Loss

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Grief and growth cannot co-occur.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Grief

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Responses to loss can be very diverse.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Grief in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Sending the message, “You are still young, you can get married again,” can be very helpful to those in mourning.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Helping Others Cope With Loss

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. Bereaved people who have cared for someone they had feelings of ambivalence toward are at greater risk of psychological difficulties.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Resiliency and Coping With Loss

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Individuals who are more resilient are less likely to experience posttraumatic growth and do worse after death.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Resiliency and Coping With Loss

Difficulty Level: Easy

Short Answer

1. What is the difference between primary and secondary control?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. List two of the four ways in which individuals respond to life events, as specified by Lieberman and Peskin.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Provide one example of collaborative coping.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Provide an example of problem-focused coping.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. What is resilience?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Resiliency and Coping With Loss

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Describe primary, secondary, and tertiary appraisal. How do they relate to stress-coping?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Whitbourne (1987) discussed the terms accommodative coping and assimilative coping. Explain what these terms mean and provide an example.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Stress and Coping in Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. What is an advanced directive, and why does it matter?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Influences on How We Cope With Loss: How Death Is Defined

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Explain the Terror Management Theory, and why it can be adaptive.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Responses to Death and Dying as Influences on Coping With Loss

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Compare and contrast the stages of grief and the Duel Process Model.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Grief

Difficulty Level: Medium