Coping Strategies Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

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1. Which of the following is not one of the compilation of tips for journaling?

a. Uncensorship

b. Centering

c. Censorship

d. Spontaneity

2. Black humor is a specialized style of humor therapy for African American clients:

a. True

b. False

3. Which style of coping implements a series of effective coping skills to alter one’s behavior to stress?

a. Self-efficacy coping

b. Palliative coping

c. Instrumental coping

d. Principle coping

4. Which of the following are steps of effective coping techniques?

a. Modified behaviors

b. Informational processing

c. Increased awareness

d. All of the above

5. All of the following personality traits are more likely to take calculated risks except:

a. Self-actualization

b. Hardy personality

c. Type R personality

d. Self-serving

6. Which theorist defined the term “coping”?

a. Viktor Frankl

b. Carl Jung

c. Wayne Dyer

d. Richard Lazarus

7. Which stage of change explains denial of a problem?

a. Relapse stage

b. Precontemplation stage

c. Determination stage

d. None of the above

8. The generation gap describes the communication chasm between parents and their teen children:

a. True

b. False

9. Which of the following conflict style is based on a win-lose mentality?

a. Content conflict

b. Value conflict

c. Ego conflict

d. All of the above

10. Self-efficacy is a term coined by Albert Bandura:

a. True

b. False

11. Which of the following personality types employ a negative coping style and claim victimization?

a. Type A personality

b. Codependent behaviors

c. Hopeless-helpless behaviors

d. All of the above

12. Which therapy was developed by Albert Ellis to help people cope with anxiety?

a. Cognitive restructuring

b. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

c. Information processing model

d. None of the above

13. Which of the following are repeated negative thought processing that tends to pollute our view of our lives and ourselves?

a. Unconscious resistance

b. Thought stopping

c. Toxic thoughts

d. Reframing

14. The technology gap explains the technology preference of people over and under age 30:

a. True

b. False

15. Viktor Frankl based Man’s Search for Meaning on surviving his time in Auschwitz?

a. True

b. False

16. Which personality type describes a person who has given up on life?

a. Helpless-Hopeless Personality

b. Type A Personality

c. Hardy Personality

d. Type D Personality

17. Which negative self-talk thinking pattern looks at the worst of almost every situation?

a. Blaming

b. Catastrophizing

c. Pessimism

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d. Magnifying

18. Should-ing is reprimanding yourself for the things you “should” have done:

a. True

b. False

19. Which popular short prayer encourages acceptance and wisdom?

a. Mindfulness

b. Serenity

c. Peaceful

d. None of the above

20. Awfulizing is a mindset where one tends to see the bad in every situation:

a. True

b. False

21. Positive optimism was coined by Albert Bandura:

a. True

b. False

22. Which type of conditioning uses learned behavior to a stimulus affecting involuntary functions?

a. Procedural conditioning

b. Abstract conditioning

c. Classical conditioning

d. Operant conditioning

23. What are beliefs about our values often expressed as opinions?

a. Operant conditioning

b. Values

c. Classical conditioning

d. Attitudes

24. Which of the following is a behavior learned through imitation?

a. Modeling

b. Bargaining

c. Catharsis

d. Acceptance

25. Behaviors are actions (conscious or unconscious) that are based on conscious thoughts:

a. True

b. False

26. What type of humor describes more than one person laughing at the same thing?

a. Creative sense of humor

b. Slapstick

c. Conventional sense of humor

d. Puns

27. Which sense of humor represents the class clown?

a. Life-of-the-party sense of humor

b. Good-sport sense of humor

c. Conventional sense of humor

d. Creative sense of humor

28. Which creative team player identifies when one selects new ideas outside their comfort zone?

a. Artist

b. Judge

c. Explorer

d. Warrior

29. Secondary creativity is last stage of creative process where strategy is played out:

a. True

b. False

30. Time pressure fuels creativity is not one of the six myths of creativity:

a. True

b. False

31. Which roadblock is caused by personal constraints like time that impede the creative process?

a. Perceptual roadblocks

b. Emotional roadblocks

c. Cultural roadblocks

d. Environmental roadblocks

32. The color red can represent either compassion or anger:

a. True

b. False

33. According to von Oech, which creative role campaigns for ideas?

a. Judge

b. Warrior

c. Explorer

d. Artist

34. What physical element uses pitch, volume, and rate of words to influence the listener?

a. Regulators

b. Emblems

c. Paralanguage

d. Adaptors

35. Primary creativity is the 1st stage of the creative process where ideas are conceived:

a. True

b. False

36. The color gray can represent ambiguity or uncertainty:

a. True

b. False

37. What type of humor describes someone who can take a practical joke without suing?

a. Life-of-the-party sense of humor

b. Conventional sense of humor

c. Good-sport sense of humor

d. Creative sense of humor

38. Players on the creative team include all of the following except:

a. The Explorer

b. The Judge

c. The Artist

d. All of the Above

39. Which type of humor is thought to be the lowest form of humor?

a. Bathroom humor

b. Sarcasm

c. Dry humor

d. Puns

40. All of the following are conflict-management styles except:

a. Persuasion

b. Surrender

c. Dialogue

d. Paranoia

41. The color purple represents highly spiritual nature and unconditional love:

a. True

b. False

42. Type B personalities are time-conscious and rush to meet deadlines:

a. True

b. False

43. Which time management ideas assist life balance?

a. Delegation

b. Scheduled interruptions

c. Healthy boundaries

d. All of the above

44. Which stage of change is also referred to as “second nature”?

a. Maintenance stage

b. Action stage

c. Relapse stage

d. Contemplation stage

45. Art therapy is a means of verbal expression:

a. True

b. False

46. Which scheduling technique divides the day into 3 to 5 hour chunks of time for big projects?

a. Scheduling

b. Boxing

c. Clustering

d. Both a & c

47. Reframing is a thought process where a positive perception is substituted for a negative one:

a. True

b. False

48. What behavior that is neither passive or aggressive but proactively diplomatic?

a. Assertiveness

b. Expressive

c. Manipulation

d. Negotiation

49. Which of the following represent illustrative themes in art therapy?

a. Fantasy animals

b. Healing images

c. Mental images

d. All of the above

50. Norman Cousins used humor to heal himself from disease:

a. True

b. False