PSYC2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Sympathetic Nervous System

26. Two weeks of final exams filled with stress and too much caffeine has caused you to suffer from the inability to fall asleep, or A) Insomnia B) Nonsomnia C) Narcolepsy D) Somnambulism E) Sleep apnea

2. According to lecture, the absolute threshold is defined as when an organism can detect a stimulus_ percent of the time. a. 30 b. 50 c. 66 d. 70 e. none of these are correct

George Bonanno (clinical psychologist) suggests that most people are resilient in the face of extreme stress, trauma, and loss. He goes to far as to suggest that psychological intervention is not necessary in most cases. What do you think? Are we all pretty resilient?