Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hans Selye, Stress Management, Homeostasis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Yves Bureau

Document Summary

Stress: the on-specific mental or somatic result of any demand upon the body. Coping: strategies that one employs to deal with stresses caused by the ever-changing demands of the environment: everyone has different coping mechanisms to deal with stress. Stress literacy: the degree to which an individual or community understands the effect of stress. Nature of stress is a diffused multidimensional phenomenon that can"t be reduced to one element. Stress should be retained refers to quality of experience, produced through a person-environment transaction through over or under-arousal little consensus and conclusions among researchers about the meaning of stress approaches: response-based: stimulus-based, cognitive-transactional: Eustress: positive, yet stressful experience increased motivation and acceptance of a challenge: function best when stress is used to produce an optimal level of arousal. Lazarus coping definition: constantly changing cognitive and behavioural efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding resources. Hans selye: master of stress research and theory.