NEUR 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cortisol, Wishful Thinking, Paracrine Signalling
4 Sep 2016
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Appraisals in relation to learning, memory, automaticity, and habit. Evaluations made in response to a potential stressor: risk assessment. Involves all qualities (predictability, ambiguity : decision can be reached rapidly or longer process, conscious or unconscious. Secondary: resource availability, can i cope with this threat? secondary: evaluation of how you"re going to deal with the stressor (cope, resources) Control dimensions: longer process, coming up with ways of coping. Behavioural control: ability to influence the stressor through action, direct influence (stopping it or lessening severity, escape from stressor, automatic. Cognitive control: ability to influence the stressor by using a mental strategy, promotes the most beneficial effects on well-being, process of figuring out what to do, conscious, time consuming. Decisional control: having a choice over which coping strategy to use, rare, decision usually already made for you in terms of what to do, secondary: decision w coping strategy.
