Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Exposure Therapy, Escitalopram, Social Class
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Stress: pattern of physiological, behavioural, emotional and cognitive responses to real or imagined stimuli that are perceived as blocking a goal or endangering out well-being. Stressors intervening factors stress reaction: stressors include catastrophes (tsunami), life changes (death of a spouse, divorce, marriage), hassles. Intervening factors include appraisal, perceived control, personality, social support, coping: stress reaction include physiological, emotional, behavioural. Weiss study on control (1977: group 1: no shock no ulcers, really, group 2: avoidable shock some ulcers, group 3: unavoidable shock a lot of ulcers. Group 2 and 3 receive exactly the same number of shocks. Study by anke et al. (2010: noise caused by airplanes cause high levels of heart attack. Stress may lead to anxiety disorder if persistent. Anxiety: negative emotion experiences as an uncomfortable level of apprehension/fear; marked by physiological arousal, doubt concerning the source of threat and self-doubt about one"s capacity to cope with it.