PSYC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Controllability, Digestion, Pituitary Gland
13 May 2019
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Interaction model of stress: with them (greater imbalance = greater stress) Likelihood: severity of consequence = determines level of stress, appraise the personal meaning: 1: cant make a decision between the repellent forces on both sides = high stress and unhappiness, approach-avoidance: Cyclic: most people hang around the point of maximum conflict (approach force. Involves being both attracted to and repelled by each of two different options (country vs. city: delay discounting: Incentive value decreases with greater delay (time: as event approaches, incentive increases. Something is attractive = approach it; the closer you get, the more attractive. Stress = negative emotions (typically) frustration: dejection, sadness, grief. Sympathetic: prepares body for stress (activation); fight-or-flight: parasympathetic: restores normal stress levels; rest-and-digest, polygraph (lie detectors): assumption that lying = anxiety = activation of. Sympathetic ns activation and stress hormones: rapid increase in physiological arousal, hormone: cortisol, hypothalamus - pituitary - adrenal gland = hpa = increase sugar and oxygen to muscles, resistance.
