Week 3: Resilience

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Understanding Resilience Quiz

Test your knowledge on resilience with our comprehensive quiz! Explore various aspects of resilience, including psychological factors, stress responses, and coping mechanisms. This engaging quiz is designed to help you understand the importance of resilience in overcoming challenges and its relevance to mental well-being.

Learn about stress forms and their impact
Discover the role of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex
Examine concepts such as emotional overload and the importance of social support

15 Questions4 MinutesCreated by GrowingMind42

Which of these is NOT a subjective factor in the assessment of a response to a stressor?

Availability of resources: sufficient or insufficient

Prefrontal dysregulation

Prior experience: perceived success or failure

Locus of control: internal or external

The basic definition of resilience is:

The rapidity of recovery from adversity

One's personal "grit" or ability to overcome challenges without any support.

The ability to meet any challenge without experiencing stress

One's genetically inherited ability to survive without difficulty.

Which of these is an indication that one's capacity for resilience could be improved?

One's sense that one can respond effectively to a challenge varies in accord with the availability of social support.

One sometimes is unable to succeed at a difficult task—for example, one gets a failing grade on a test.

Reactivity continues even after an adverse event has ended

One experiences stress in response to challenges

The story of Kisa Gotami illustrates the kind of resilient response that is often highlighted by religious traditions. This kind of response involves

responding to difficulty by remaining completely unchanged by it.

refusing to accept failure.

avoiding all difficulties by choosing a spiritual life.

overcoming a challenge in a way that leads to radical growth and transformation.

Which of the following are true about distraction? Select all that apply.

Research participants were distracted 47% of the time.

Focus is a learnable skill.

When doing boring tasks, people reported being happier when they recalled pleasant memories.

When doing boring tasks, people reported being happier when they paid attention to the task at hand.

Neuroscientific research suggests that the capacity to respond in a resilient way to adversity may be related to the ability to regulate the reactivity of the amygdala when there is a response to adverse stimuli. What aspect of the brain correlates with this increased capacity for more effective regulation of amygdala response?

Functional connectivity of the temporal lobe with the amygdala

The size of the amygdala

The size of the temporal lobe

Functional connectivity of the prefrontal cortex with the amygdala

What are the forms of stress? Check all that apply.

Positive Stress (Eustress)

Toxic Stress or Trauma

Tolerable Stress (Distress)

Pseudo-stress

One general function of the amygdala is:

to enable one to ignore challenges or threats

to respond in a way that indicates that something is significant or important.

to respond to any challenge in a way that produces fear

to keep one calm in the midst of challenges

According to the essay on resilience, "emotional overload" involves

prefrontal cortex (PFC) breakdown, during which one can no longer speak coherently.

emotional paralysis, during which one cannot move.

transcranial induction, during which all brain function temporarily ceases.

A refractory period during which we are cognitive functioning—especially the ability to process new information—is impaired.

The "ordinary magic" of resilience involves responding to a challenge (such as a threat or an opportunity) by

remaining vigilant.

Always succeeding in the face of a threat or challenge.

"bouncing forward" to baseline.

Trying to do everything by yourself without support.

Which of these is true of the "baseline"? Check all that apply

The "baseline" is the state that one generally returns to after the challenge posed by a stressor has been resolved.

Every individual has their own baseline.

The baseline can change due to experience or deliberate practice.

One's baseline is set at birth and never changes.

Due to toxic stress or trauma, one's baseline state may include excessive vigilance or expectation of threat.

According to the reading, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can have an impact on one's capacity for resilience, such that the more ACEs one has experienced, the more challenging it can be to develop resilience. Which one of these statements is true of ACEs?

ACEs are very rare.

Someone who has faced a lot of ACEs will never be very resilient.

While ACEs are a negative factor in resilience, it is also possible to overcome their influence.

ACEs only impact people who lack "grit."

From the standpoint of those who critique some aspects of the psychological account of resilience, which of these is true? Check all that apply.

Resilience is not just a matter of "grit"; conditions beyond the individual are also highly relevant to one's capacity for flourishing.

Resilience is really the responsibility of each individual, and the influence of systems is not relevant.

Resources should be restricted in resilient people only.

Systems can facilitate or inhibit resilience through resource access.

In response to a stress, one may enter "fight or flight" mode, which involves the sympathetic nervous system. After returning to baseline, what mode would one usually enter?

"Feed and breed," involving primarily the parasympathetic nervous system.

"Sleep and dream," involving mostly the tripathic nervous system.

"Treat and complete," involving the positive nervous system.

"Heal and deal," involving primarily the central nervous system.

Due most likely to the capacities of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in humans, we are able to engage in what type of activity to an extent that is unusual, compared to other species?

Spatial navigation.

Agressive, spontaneous reactions to threats.

Emotion regulation.

Detection of audio stimuli.

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