Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Hans Selye, The Automatic, Muscle Atrophy
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Stress is something that feeds into your understanding of emotion, your motivation, your ability to preform cognitively, and your ability to engage in ongoing behaviour. Fearful thinking, negative emotions, perceived threat, body in uproar. Human being and other primates have stresses that don"t exist in other animals. Respond, and get away from the danger, or i die. They don"t wait around for 45 years worrying about it. Human beings, on the other hand, stress out about an exam mark, and worry about it long term. This is your perception of what your body is going through. A stressor is anything that pushes our bodily systems out of homeostasis (a same, balanced, level). A stressor could be a fight with a friend, having a death in the family, being ill, etc. A stress response is the suite of psychological and behavioural responses to return the body to homeostasis. Much of this is outside of your voluntary control.
