PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hans Selye, Wishful Thinking, Hypothalamus

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Kevin Hamilton

Document Summary

Mild, moderate, or severe in intensity: the human body is adapted to cope with acute stress, but it does not cope well with chronic stress! Some types of work are inherently stressful. Some types of situations are seen by everyone as stressful (e. g. war, earthquakes, fires, etc. ) Some forms of stress can be healthy for us (e. g. aerobic activities: reactions to stressors are called stress responses, bad stress = distress, good stress = eustress. Categories of stressful events: traumatic events: situations outside the range of usual human experience (e. g. house fires, earthquake, war, car accidents, robbery, rape, uncontrollable and unpredictable events: noise, crowds, hassles, traffic, car repairs, weather, etc. 2: internal (personal) events that challenge the limits of our own capabilities and self-concepts (e. g. moral and ethical issues) The perception of not having control is at the root of this problem at it leads to massive health differences between the two groups.