Lesson 4.3.7.4

4.3.7.4 Managing and coping with stress and social support Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. What is stress inoculation therapy?

    • A drug treatment that blocks adrenaline receptors to prevent the stress response from starting in people who are highly anxious
    • A social support scheme in which people receive regular advice from a single close friend or relative who is available at all times
    • A cognitive-behavioural programme that teaches coping skills in stages to help people manage stressors
    • A physiological method that trains people to lower their skin conductance through practice with a monitor and a set of relaxation exercises

  2. What is biofeedback as a way of managing stress?

    • A drug that increases the body's production of cortisol to build resistance
    • A form of social support in which friends give practical help with tasks
    • A personality test used to identify Type A individuals before stressful events
    • Using feedback from physiological measures so the person can learn to control arousal

  3. Which drug class is sometimes used to reduce the physical symptoms of stress?

    • Beta blockers
    • Antidepressants that only target serotonin
    • Stimulants that increase dopamine
    • Antipsychotics

  4. Which type of social support involves providing practical help, such as lending money or doing a task?

    • Instrumental support
    • Emotional support
    • Esteem support
    • Informational support in the form of advice about therapy

  5. Which type of social support involves showing care, empathy and comfort?

    • Emotional support
    • Esteem support
    • Financial support given to pay for a service
    • Instrumental support

  6. Which type of social support involves making someone feel valued and boosting their self-esteem?

    • Instrumental support
    • Emotional support
    • Esteem support
    • Physical support given during a medical procedure

  7. Which gender difference in coping with stress is commonly reported in the research literature?

    • Women more often seek social support, sometimes described as tend and befriend
    • Men more often seek social support, while women rarely use any form of coping
    • Men and women have identical coping styles with no reported differences at all
    • Women never use drug therapy, while men use it in every reported case

  8. A patient is taught to recognise early signs of anxiety, practise relaxation, then apply these skills during a real stressor. Which approach is this?

    • Drug therapy using beta blockers
    • Stress inoculation therapy
    • Biofeedback with a skin conductance monitor
    • A Type A personality intervention to reduce hostility

  9. A person uses a monitor to learn to lower heart rate when stressed. Which technique is being used?

    • Stress inoculation therapy
    • Instrumental social support
    • Hardiness training
    • Biofeedback

  10. Which evaluation point applies to stress management through drug therapy?

    • Drugs are only effective for people who have never experienced stress at all
    • Drugs have been shown to remove the cause of all stress permanently in every patient
    • Drugs have no side effects, so they are always the safest option available
    • Drugs may treat symptoms but do not teach the person coping skills that can be used later

  11. Which evaluation point applies to research on gender differences in coping?

    • Gender differences may be influenced by socialisation, so they cannot be attributed to biology alone
    • Gender differences in coping are entirely biological, with no role for socialisation at all
    • Gender differences in coping have been shown to be absent in every study ever conducted
    • Gender differences in coping are the same in all cultures, which proves they are innate

  12. Which type of support is most helpful when a person needs to be told they have done a good job at work?

    • Physical protection from a threat
    • Instrumental support
    • Esteem support
    • Financial support

  13. A person receives help with childcare while their partner is ill. Which type of social support is this?

    • Emotional support
    • Social reinforcement through praise
    • Instrumental support
    • Esteem support

  14. Why might drug therapy be less effective than psychological methods in the long term?

    • Drug therapy always increases cortisol, which makes stress worse over time and can lead to a steady rise in symptoms for many people
    • Drug therapy prevents all life changes from occurring in future, which means that patients do not need any other form of support
    • Drug therapy may not teach coping skills, so the person may relapse when the medication stops
    • Drug therapy only works for people with a Type C personality profile, so most patients with stress do not benefit from it at all

  15. Which statement about the role of social support in coping with stress is accurate?

    • Social support only works if it is given by a stranger rather than a close friend
    • Social support has no role in coping with stress, which is purely individual
    • Social support always increases stress because it adds demands to the person's life
    • Social support can buffer the effects of stress on health and wellbeing

  16. A researcher finds that people with high social support have lower stress responses to a laboratory task. Which conclusion is most appropriate?

    • Social support has no effect on stress because the lab task is always the same
    • Social support increases stress responses in every participant regardless of context
    • Social support definitely causes stress responses to disappear completely in the lab
    • Social support is associated with lower stress responses, but a causal link needs further testing

  17. Which method of stress management involves teaching a person to think about stress in a more controlled way?

    • Biofeedback of skin conductance only
    • Type A personality training
    • Stress inoculation therapy
    • Drug therapy using antipsychotics

  18. Which best describes an advantage of biofeedback over drug therapy?

    • It causes no side effects and removes the need for any other form of support
    • It teaches a skill the person can use independently, without relying on medication
    • It increases the body's cortisol production, which makes the person more resilient
    • It always works faster than drugs in every person who uses it for the first time

  19. A researcher wants to test whether social support reduces the effect of a stressor. Which design is most appropriate?

    • An experiment comparing participants given support with participants not given support, measuring stress responses
    • A review of the SRRS scores of people who have never met anyone, collected from a database of records held by a national health service
    • A correlation between height and stress scores in a large sample of adults, collected through an online survey that participants completed at home
    • A case study of one person's diary about social support in the past, written over several years and reviewed by the researcher afterwards

  20. Which statement describes the relationship between social support and stress?

    • Support may reduce the impact of stress on health, especially when the support is perceived as available
    • Support is only relevant for people with a Type A personality and no other group, because only that type responds to the presence of others
    • Support has no measurable relationship with stress in any group of people, since the effects of support are always cancelled out by other factors
    • Support always increases the impact of stress on health through extra demands, because people feel obliged to repay the help they receive

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