PSYB10H3 Lecture 11: Social Psychology Lecture 11.docx
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Stress: a response you have to a demanding situation (the stressor) Stressors can take diff forms: can be psychological, or physiological (staying up all night to study) Psycho stress: degree to which you have to adapt in order to respond to an event that requires you to change and readjust your life. >good and bad events are stressful, anything that requires change (marriage, graduation, death in the family) Physio stress: body responds to maintain homeostasis. when body comes out of its normal routine to respond to something. Allostasis: a tight allostatic system, very flexible (highs to lows) in terms of arousal. all for the purpose of adapting to the current environment. Result of chronic stressors is that if you have allostatic stress, its related to heart diseases, diabetes, cancer, immune disease. Challenge is the good stress, improves your performance. threat inhibits your performance.