Brent Copes with the Diagnosis of Asthma by Reading Everything

question 180

Multiple Choice

Brent copes with the diagnosis of asthma by reading everything he can find about the illness. This is an example of

• A)inward-focused coping.
• B)outward-focused coping.
• C)problem-focused coping.
• D)emotion-focused coping.

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Definitions:

Cultural Heritage

The heritage consisting of tangible objects and intangible qualities inherited from one generation to the next within a community or society.

Gambler's Fallacy

The erroneous belief that if a particular outcome occurs more frequently in a specific period, it will occur less frequently in the future, or vice versa.

Law Of Small Numbers

The cognitive bias whereby people draw broad conclusions from a small set of observations.

Representativeness Heuristic

A mental shortcut that involves making judgments about the probability of an event under uncertainty, based on how similar it is to our stereotypes of similar occurrences.