PSYC 3390 Lecture Notes - Acquaintance Rape, Norepinephrine, Insomnia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

Document Summary

Adjustive demands placed on an organism and to the organism"s internal biological and psychological response to such demands. Stressors - adjustive demands and the effect they create within an organism is stress. Coping strategies - efforts to deal with stress. Stress is a by-product of poor and inadequate coping. Stressors supposedly can be identified as causal factors and specified on axis iv. Environmental = prejudice and discrimination, death of a loved one. Personal limitations = physical handicaps, limited ability to perform tasks, loneliness. Often lead to self-devaluation, making the person feel like a failure and incompetent: conflicts. Simultaneous occurrence of 2 or more incompatible needs or motives. Conflicts may be approach-avoidance (approach and avoid the same goal), double-ap- proach (choosing between 2 or more desirable goals), and double-avoidance (choices are between undesirable alternatives: pressures. Pressures to achieve specific goals or to behave in particular ways.