PSYC 3P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone, Sympathetic Nervous System, Adrenal Medulla
6 Oct 2016
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What is stressful to you may not be stressful to others. There is no one way to feel or perceive stress. These are not the same in everyone either. There are short-term and long term stress responses. There is no one right way to cope with a stressor, or a stress response. People may actually cope by increasing the stress in a situation. Or by dealing with our emotions instead of the stressor itself. Our bodies can adapt to demands required in coping. Circumstances can require both long and short-term changes in activity levels. How do body and brain chemistry change in response to stress and relaxation, and how can this radically alter both mood and motivations. The relationship that exists between a person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his/her well-being. This definition introduces the important notion of subjective appraisal.
