Control Over Your Fate: The Key Factor In Differentiating Reactions to Stress

Status and Stress by Moises Velasquez-Manoff.  The New York Times.  July 27, 2013.

Important article about the public health implications of stress resulting from poverty and the deteriorating ability many feel to control their condition.

Follow the above link, read the article, and test yourself with a brief quiz.

(1)  The more ____________ one feels when facing a given stressors, the more _________ that stressor's effects.

(2)  Those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladders are more _____________likely to die premature as those at the top.

(3)  While people are not absolutely condemned by their upbringing, the effects of early-life stress ______________________________.

(4)  "Status syndrome"  refers to the direct relationship between ___________________________________.

(5)  By definition, the poor have _______________.

(6)  Lack of control leads to learned ___________.

(7)  Fight-or-flight response activated chronically wears the body _________.

(8)  Those who experience early-life stress have more markers of _____________ which activates such diseases as _________________.

(9)  Discuss research on the racial differences in longevity.

(10)  "Biological embedding" of social status refers to _______________

(11)  A harder, faster response to threats, perhaps brought on my early-life stress may contribute to the formation of ________________.

(12)  Poorer parents may _____________ less with their children.

(13)  Socioeconomic states correlates with the ability to _____________.

(14)  Neuroscience findings of less growth in brain regions associated with financial disadvantage reframes childhood poverty as a __________________ issue.

(15)  High ranking primate males ___________ faster than their lower-ranking counterparts.

(16)  ______________ children in the United States lives below the poverty line.

(17)  During the late 20th century gains in longevity were concentrated in _____________.

(18)  A National Research Council found that Americans were generally ________________ than in 16 other nations.

(19)  According to an Yale economist quoted in the article, the higher the spending on _______________ the greater the longevity dividends.