Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Intellectualization, Promiscuity, Reinforcement

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Stress involves any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) threaten . Psychologists have viewed stress in 3 different ways: a stimulus, a response, an organism and environment interaction. Events that place strong demands on us. These situations are referred to as stressors . Statements such as: there is all this stress in my life right now, i have lost my backpack . We often think of stress in terms of major stressors tornadoes, hijackings. Routine hassles have been found to be more strongly related to mental and physical health than major stressors. Stress can be viewed as a response that has cognitive, physiological and behavioural components. Ex the game with the red square and the girl who went up got nervous when we cheered her on. A person might say i"m feeling stressed out. I"m tensed up, i cant concentrate because i"m really worried and i have been flying off of the wall .