PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Positive Youth Development, Sympathetic Nervous System, Endocrine System
28 Dec 2017
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Positive youth development: a approach to studying adolescence that focuses on factors that encourage young people to delve healthy attitudes and become engaged in productive, life- enhancing activities. Healthy adolescents are seen as those without problems such as substance abuse, pregnancy, etc. Stress: a physical, hormonal, and psychological response to the perception of danger or threat. A negative emotional experience accompanied by predictable biochemical, physiological, cognitive, and behavioural changes that are either toward altering the stressful event or accommodating to its effects. Most de nitions of stress emphasize the relationship between the individual and the environment. Stress is determined by the t between the person and the environment. Stress pathways become more active in adolescence. Assigns a very limited role to psychological factors. Appraisal factors, like how people interpret stress, are not considered. Only assessed stress as an outcome variable. Evidence that different streetcars are in uenced by personality, perceptions, and constitutions.
