Scientific American: Psychology
Infographic Activity 11.3: 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?
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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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