AP®︎ Psychology: Topic 5.1 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 5.1 of AP Psychology – Introduction to Health Psychology.
Questions List
Topic 5.1
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: 5.1.A
What does health psychology primarily study?
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Topic 5.1: Introduction to Health Psychology
Learning Objective: 5.1.A
Explain how health psychology addresses issues of physical health and wellness as they apply to behavior and mental processes.
Learning Objective: 5.1.B
Explain how stress applies to behavior and mental processes.
Essential Knowledge: 5.1.B.1
Stress is a factor in heightened susceptibility to disorders and disease. Stress has been linked to physiological issues such as hypertension, headaches, and immune suppression.
Essential Knowledge: 5.1.B.2
Stressors can be viewed as motivating (eustress) or debilitating (distress). Stressors can be experienced as traumatic or as daily hassles that can build up over time. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are sources of stress that can affect a person throughout the lifespan.
Learning Objective: 5.1.C
Explain how reactions to stress apply to behavior and mental processes.
Essential Knowledge: 5.1.C.1
The general adaptation syndrome (GAS) describes the process of experiencing stress. Initially, alarm reaction occurs when the stress is encountered (via a fight-flight-freeze response). Then, a resistance phase occurs as the stress is confronted. Finally, an exhaustion phase occurs when the stress subsides, or resources are spent. The greatest susceptibility to illness occurs during the exhaustion phase.
Essential Knowledge: 5.1.C.2
The tend-and-befriend theory proposes that some people react to stress by tending to their own needs and/or the needs of others and seeking connection with others. This phenomenon seems to occur mostly in women.
Learning Objective: 5.1.D
Explain how the ways that people cope with stress applies to behavior and mental processes.
Essential Knowledge: 5.1.D.1
Problem-focused coping involves seeing stress as a problem to be solved and working solutions until a solution is found.
Essential Knowledge: 5.1.D.2
Emotion-focused coping involves managing emotional reactions to stress as a means of coping. Strategies that are emotion-focused may include deep breathing, meditation, or taking medication aimed at reducing stressful emotional responses.
