PSY 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Posttraumatic Growth, Autonomic Nervous System
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Sources of stress: frustration, pursuit of a goal is blocked ex) accident on the freeway prevents you from getting to class on time. 2: occurs when there is a conflict between two incompatible motivations or behaviors. Approach-approach: choice must be made between two attractive goals: least stressful type of internal conflict, although can be stressful if an important. Approach-avoidance: choice must be made about whether to pursue a single goal that has both attractive/unattractive aspects. Approach: avoidance conflicts are common and stressful: change. Social readjustment rating scale (srrs: assesses health risks due to accumulation of positive and negative life changes, many studies have shown that people with higher scores on the srrs and similar scales are more vulnerable to illness. Fight or flight response = physiological reaction to threat that mobilizes an organism for attacking (fight) or fleeing (flight) Controlled by the autonomic nervous system (ans) which regulates internal organs.
