Trying to Reduce Stress by Avoiding or Ignoring a Stressor

question 24

Multiple Choice

Trying to reduce stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor is most characteristic of

• A) emotion-focused coping.
• B) personal control.
• C) problem-focused coping.
• D) an internal locus of control.

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Definitions:

Marginal Utility

The extra pleasure or benefit derived from using an additional unit of a product or service.

Marginal Rates

The additional cost or benefit associated with a small incremental increase in a unit of activity.

Utilities Possibilities Frontier

A concept in economics that represents all possible allocations of utility or satisfaction among different goods and services for a particular consumer or society, graphically.

Efficient

A state of productivity in which resources are used in the most cost-effective way without waste, achieving the highest possible output from a given input.