PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Coping With, Circulatory System, Thought Suppression

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Tsasha Awong

Document Summary

Psychology lecture notes, chapter 12: stress and coping. * stress: a pattern of physiological, behavioral, emotional and cognitive responses to real or imaged stimuli; this response disturbs the organism (stress as a response approach) * stressor: the stimulus or environmental event causing a response, or the stress (stressors as stimuli approach) * top 3 stressors for college students are rape, stds and pregnancy concerns, followed by things such as oversleeping for exams, cheating, financial difficulties, exams, room mate difficulties, classes, commuting, etc. * daily hassles: small, everyday problems that accumulate to become a source of stress (ex. traffic, long lines, etc); the cumulative effect of hassles may be better predictors of well being than major events. * stress as a transaction approach emphasizes appraisal and interpretations; we interpret certain events as threatening, and our emotional reaction to stressors largely depends on how we interpret them.