Scientific American: Psychology
Infographic Activity 12.2: The Process of Coping
The Process of Coping
Coping refers to the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral methods we employ to manage stressful events. But we don’t always rely on the same strategies to manage stressors in our lives. Coping is an individual process through which we appraise a stressor to determine how it will affect us and how we can respond.
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1. When she is confronted with a challenging situation, Ellen always starts with a coping evaluation called a “primary appraisal.” Which of the following questions would she ask herself during this evaluation?
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2. Why is it that we may have to make several primary appraisals of a given stressor or situation?a. Because there are several questions involved in the primary appraisal, and they all must occur independently of each other.
*b. Because most stressful events are dynamic, and have to be assessed at different stages.
c. Because it is only after we have tried to reduce a stressor that a primary appraisal can be made, so we have to do it several times.
d. Because primary appraisals only occur when a stressor repeats itself, so we have to make it every time the stressor occurs again.
3. The process of asking ourselves what we can or should do in response to a challenging or threatening situation is called a(n) ________ appraisal.
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4. Gabriel has been renting an apartment, but his landlord shows up one day and tells him that he has to move out in 3 days. Although this is very unfair, Gabriel does not have any choice. He is thinking about how he is going to deal with this problem, and decides that the first thing he needs to do is calm down and not panic. “I know I have friends I can stay with, and I won’t be left without a home.” Gabriel is using what sort of coping strategy?
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5. When you face a stressor and decide to engage in actions that will do something to deal with/reduce the actual source of the stressor, what kind of coping mechanism are you employing?
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