PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Aerobic Exercise, Explanatory Style, Conscientiousness

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well being and that thereby tax ones coping ability. Major stressors vs. rouine hassles o o o o. Research shows that rouine hassles can add up if their frequent. The way you perceive an event changes how you cope with the event. The parpaher nervosu system is efected when were stress. The sympathic nervous system, speciically see heart rate increase, high blood pressure, sugar rises, we get out of breath, digetsion stops, sweat increase; all these things happen whe were stree. Its normal to have some stress in your life. Some of it is beneicial in how we learn to cope an dhow we avoid someone if these things. Coninued stress and major stress are big problems. Mechanism in lace where we can learn to cope with the stressors. When we think of behavior we change also think abut the mental.