PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm, Framingham Heart Study, Semiconductor Luminescence Equations
25 Mar 2017
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Stress: a negative emotional experience accompanied by predicable biochemical, physiological, cognitive, and behavioural changes that are directed either toward altering the stressful event or accommodating to its efects. Fight-or-flight: body is motivated to either attack the stressor or withdraw from it, acts through the sympathetic nervous system. General adaptation: alarm is set of and resistance and exhaustion follow, when an organism confronts a stressor, it mobilizes itself for action. Individuals may try to apply this model to a wide type of stressors but work best for speciic stressors (e. g. evolutionary) Tend-and-befriend: when a stressor happens, parents will have to attend to their child"s needs as well as their own. In addition to ight-or-light, humans respond to stress with social and nurturant behaviour: alternatively, they may befriend others, given the importance of social support during stress. Stress appraisals: appraisals tend to focus on two separate factors:
