Psy Beh 192B - The Science and Practice of Compassion » Winter 2022 » Week 8 Quiz

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Question #1
What is stress?
A.   A strong negative emotional response to something that happened
B.   All of these
C.   A hormonal response in the body in response to an event
D.   A cascade of physical and mental experiences
E.   A situation that threatens our well being
Question #2
Becoming aware of emotional experience and labeling emotions leads to higher emotional stress and stress reactivity (feeling like a scared animal).
A.   True
B.   False
Question #3
Social support is one of the strongest ways to reduce psychological stress
A.   True
B.   False
Question #4
When we experience challenge stress (rather than threat stress) we have better performance in whatever we are trying to achieve.
A.   False
B.   True
Question #5
For people in caring professions with extremely high work demands, which is often true?
A.   Empathic distress leads to compassion
B.   Empathic distress leads to burnout
C.   Burnout leads to empathic distress
Question #6
Which is NOT typically assessed as a component of burnout?
A.   Cynicism/loss of caring
B.   Interpersonal relationship conflict
C.   Personal ineffectiveness
D.   Emotional exhaustion/numbness
Question #7
What is emotion contagion (also called emotional resonance)?
A.   Both are completely under our personal control
B.   When one person is automatically influenced by the emotions of another person
C.   When two people decide to feel the same emotions
Question #8
To be high on “emotional independence” means you are less strongly influenced by emotional contagion (the negative emotions of others).
A.   True
B.   False
Question #9
How can we train people to feel more empathy?
A.   Only by working with emotional strategies (eg, emotional awareness)
B.   All of these
C.   Only by working with cognitive strategies
Question #10
Prof. Eve Ekman demonstrated a compassion exercise, that one can do when we are with someone who is suffering. This helps people stop experiencing feelings of compassion for the other person.
A.   True
B.   False
Question #11
What is self compassion?
A.   When you consider all the good things about yourself
B.   When you stop caring about others to focus only on yourself
C.   When you recognize your needs, with kindness rather than criticism
Question #12
Why are healthcare providers, like surgeons, so susceptible to burnout?
A.   They don’t take good enough care of themselves
B.   All of these
C.   The health care system places too many demands on them
D.   They care too much about the patients
Question #13
What are the psychological components common to interventions developed to promote compassion?
A.   Kindness
B.   All of these
C.   Intention to help others
D.   Emotional Awareness
Question #14
How are empathic distress and emotion contagion similar?
A.   Both are triggered by other people’s emotions
B.   Both are triggered by our personal stressors
C.   Both are completely under our personal control
Question #15
In one large meditation study by Dr. Tania Singer, physiological reactivity to social stress tasks was reduced most by contemplative dyads (taking turns sharing experiences, and being present and listening to others).
A.   False
B.   True
Question #16
To thrive in a helping profession, it is important to:
A.   Be aware of your emotional responses and get enough support
B.   Try to eliminate stressful situations from your day
C.   Avoid being with people who are in most need
Question #17
Being under toxic stress makes us feel less safe and less compassionate to others
A.   True
B.   False
Question #18
Negative mind wandering, wishing things were different, is a good way to escape the negative effects of stress
A.   True
B.   False

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