An Assessment That Measures the Amount of Stress in a Person's

question 60

Multiple Choice

An assessment that measures the amount of stress in a person's life resulting from major life changes over one year is called the

• A) secondary appraisal.
• B) primary appraisal.
• C) Social Readjustment Rating Scale.
• D) College Undergraduate Stress Scale.
• E) Stress Response Evaluation Scale.

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Definitions:

Fixation

An obsessive focus or attachment to certain behaviors, people, or developmental stages, often hindering emotional development.

Mental Set

A cognitive tendency to approach situations in a fixed way based on previous experiences, potentially inhibiting problem-solving.

Confirmation Bias

The bias towards selecting, decoding, favoring, and reminiscing over data that corroborates one's prior beliefs or conjectures.

Perceptual Set

A tendency to perceive or notice some aspects of the available sensory data and ignore others.