PSYC 3P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biofeedback, Behaviour Therapy, Stress Management
9 Jun 2015
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Stress to you is different compared to other people"s stress, you"re perception of the stressor plays a huge whole of what is stressful to you. The is multiple ways to measure stress and how stress you are, you can fill out questionnaire. Coping is the same thing, even if its maladaptive, its different from person to person. May people cop by avoiding the situation, however, that increases the stress. Introduced the concept of homeostatos in terms of maintaining a home state. Keeping balance in the system, the system becomes unbalance with stress. If body maintain a certain state, they can be a detemental effects. He defines stress as a nonspecific response caused by any number of environmental stressors, could be a physical or a cognitive stressor but his emphasis that the you stress. He would argure that the physiological response will be the same and does not matter what the stressor is.
