Psychology Answers

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E. Which term refers to the unique way in which individuals react to stress that adversely affects their health?

1. General Adaptation syndrome (GAS)

2. Primary appraisal

3. Response specificity

4. Burnout

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D. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has caused many people to live in fear. As a result, many countries have implemented the lockdown processes in an attempt to prevent the spread of the corona virus. This is an example of a ... stressor.

1. personal

2. universal

3. community

4. micro

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C. Which one of the following options about burnout is incorrect?

1. Burnout arises from prolonged exposure to stress

2. Feeling of alienation, of being emotionally drained and empty are common

3. The development of burnout is rapid and easy to identify

4. Burnout is associated with decreased level of performance

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B. What does the Yerkers-Dodson law refer to?

1. Burnout arises from prolonged exposure to stress

2. As arousal increases, so does the performance up to a certain level

3. The amount of time it takes to learn a task increases over time

4. Attention is associated with decreased levels of performance

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The contextual model of stress is based on the assumption that...

1. an event does not have universal meaning independent of the perceiver

2. there is a pattern in the way people react to stress regardless of the nature of the stressors

3. The meaning of an event goes through a non-linear process that classifies it as a stressor

4. events are later processed as positive, negative, neutral or ambition.

Choose the correct option.

For what reason was the introduction of frt5fg tree burgher farming along the banks of the liesbeeck river by the dutch east india company(voc)in 1657 a significant development for the khoesan living there?

1.it offered the khoesan additional trading opportunities so that they could profit.

2.it was the outcome of negotiations between the khoesan and Jan van riebeeck.

3.it alienated them from traditional grazing land and affected their nomadic lifestyle.

4.it resulted in the khoesan immediately withdrawing from the area and conceding the land.

If you ask a student to choose between getting an A at the end of a course or getting a D and a beer at the end of the course, most students would choose the former. If you ask students to choose between studying right now or going to a bar right now, however, many will choose the latter. According to the _____ model, this can be explained by the _____ value of a small reward when it is _____.

a. ​Ainslie–Rachlin; increasing; far away

b. ​Ainslie–Rachlin; increasing; imminent

c. ​controlled-response; increasing; imminent

d. ​controlled-response; decreasing; far away

Choose the correct option.

Which of the following statements about the social order at the cape by the end of the voc period are accurate?

A.the "inboek" system that developed in the cape interior during the 18th century was a less exploitative labour system than slavery.

B.manual labour was regarded as something done only by black people and was "beneath" white people.

C.racial consciousness and racial stereotyping were not widely developed features of cape society.

D.khoesan,xhosa and sotho-tswana people in the interior came to be seen as potential sources of labour rather than free people with their own rights.

1.a,c.

2.b,d.

3.a,b,c.

4.a,c,d.

Choose the correct option.

In what ways was slave resistance a constant feature of cape society during the voc period?

A.individual acts of resistance,which took many different forms,were frequent and widespread.

B.slave resistance was localized rather than organized across different sectors of cape society.

C.almost all slaves were willing to participate in acts of resistance against their conditions of exploitation.

D.a number of slave leaders emerged at the end of the voc period although they were not able to organize mass revolt.

1.a,d.

2.b,c.

3.a,b.

4.c,d.

Choose the correct option.

For what reasons do historians sometimes argue that the slave system at the cape hindered economic development and caused the cape to remain an undiversified economy throughout the voc period?

A.money that could have been invested in developing farms,towns and infrastructure was instead spent on slave labour.

B.although slave traders did invest a considerable amount of their money in the cape economy,this was an inefficient form of investment.

C.the dependence on slave labour meant that other forms of labour and production that might have been more efficient were never explored.

D.the cape remained technologically backward because reliance on slave labour meant that there was no need to implement alternative strategies.

1.a,c,d.

2.b,d.

3.c,d.

4.a,b,c.