PSYC 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cortisol, Guided Imagery, Progressive Muscle Relaxation
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When you complete this unit, you should be able to: Internal and external resources and vulnerabilities that modify how stress is experienced and its effects. vulnerabilities, and adversely affect health habits. Describe how stress may exert a direct effect on illness, interact with preexisting. A series of transactions b/w a person with a set of resources, values and commitments and a particular environment with its own resources, demands, and constraints. Define optimism and explain its relationship to stress and illness. Define negativity and the pessimistic explanatory style, and explain their relationship to stress and illness. A chronic tendency to explain negative events as due to internal, stable, and global qualities of the self and to attribute positive events to external, unstable, and non-global factors; believed to contribute to the likelihood of illness. An optimistic nature can also lead people to cope more effectively with stress and thereby reduce their risk for illness.
