Immediately After You Appraise a Situation or Event as Stressful

question 72

Multiple Choice

Immediately after you appraise a situation or event as stressful, ____.

• A) you use coping skills to deal with it
• B) your body changes to deal with the stressor
• C) your body begins to experience breakdown
• D) you determine what kind of conflict it is

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Definitions:

Language

A system of communication used by a particular country or community, involving the use of words, grammar, and pronunciation.

Context Effect

The effect on a cognitive process (e.g., perception) of the information surrounding the target object or event. Sometimes called expectation effect because the context is thought to set up certain expectations in the mind of the cognitive processor.

Phonemes

The smallest units of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another.

Meaningful Units

Segments of information that have been organized in a way that gives them significance or purpose, such as syllables within words or phrases within sentences.