PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Xibalba, Wishful Thinking, Stone Age
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Interactional model: objective events happen to a person, but personality determines the impact of the events. 3 effects: can influence coping, can influence how a person appraises events, can influence the events themselves: health behaviour model: both direct and indirect effects. It is that other variable that comes between the two. General adaptation: the alarm stage is the first stage, the fight or flight stage. If the stressor continues, it gets to the stage of resistance. You are using all your resources at an above average rate. If the stress is constant, it gets to the exhaustion stage. Most related to illness: e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) the (cid:449)orld has a(cid:374) alar(cid:373) stage, a(cid:374)d that"s (cid:374)or(cid:373)al a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ot usually problematic. Resistance is not an adaptive thing for an organism. The first approach to saying that things that happen to us matter: the amount of stress that we experience can make us vulnerable. Appraisal: stress and coping in 1984 by lazarus and folkman.
