Practice question · Multiple choice
Controlled exposure to manageable stress can leave people coping better with later stressors. Why would stress ever build resilience rather than deplete it?
Hints
- Appraisal has two parts. Which one does a survived stressor supply evidence about?
- The word doing the work is 'manageable'. Ask what changes if it is not.
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D. Because a stressor that is survived teaches that it can be
Why
A stressor you get through is evidence about your resources, which is exactly what secondary appraisal is estimating, and recovery itself gets practised. Manageable is load-bearing: the same logic run past capacity produces sensitisation rather than inoculation, which is why the dose matters more than the exposure.
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