Both Positive and Negative Situations in Life Can Cause Stress

question 31

Multiple Choice

Both positive and negative situations in life can cause stress.To manage these stresses, one needs to:

• A)develop coping strategies.
• B)dispute negative thinking.
• C)lessen demands leading to stress.
• D)increase spiritual activities.

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Definitions:

Proximal Stimulus

Reception of information and its registration by a sense organ (e.g., retinal images in the case of vision). Contrast with distal stimulus.

Percept

The outcome of a perceptual process; the meaningful interpretation of incoming information.

Distal Stimulus

An object, event, or pattern as it exists in the world. Contrast with proximal stimulus.

Prägnanz

A principle from Gestalt psychology that suggests people will perceive and interpret ambiguous or complex images as the simplest form(s) possible.