When Alyson Faces a Stressful Problem,she Concentrates on Controlling Negative

question 75

Multiple Choice

When Alyson faces a stressful problem,she concentrates on controlling negative thoughts and reassuring herself that she can handle the situation.She also plans her day so that she doesn't have time to think about the problem.Alyson is using ____ coping to deal with her stress.

• A) emotion-focused
• B) outcome-oriented
• C) solution generation
• D) problem-focused

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Definitions:

Natural Selection

A fundamental mechanism of evolution, where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Catastrophism

The theory that the Earth has been shaped by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope, contrasting with uniformitarianism which emphasizes gradual changes.

Mitosis

A kind of cell division that produces new cells having exactly the same number of chromosome pairs, and hence copies of genes, as the parent cell.

Cell Division

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