Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Prolonged Grief Disorder, Autonomic Nervous System, Adrenal Gland

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Donald Gorassini

Document Summary

The tension, discomfort or physical symptoms that arise when the situation, called a stressor a type of stimulus strains our ability to cope effectively (p. 469) Stress as an secondary emotion (a negative state) Some sampling of fear, anger, surprise, disgust and sadness. Functional for our ancestors: threat fear self-protection, frustration anger aggression. Major life events (divorce, death, loss of a job) Results in traumatic grief: not being able to let go and move on with life. Study: caring for terminally ill spouse highly stressful as well, 2 groups formed after spouse died (traumatic grief and control, pretest health controlled, 25mo. follow-up experienced more flu, heart disease, and caner. Changing your life situation as a way of reducing stress and its impact on you. Switching jobs because the current one is too stressful. Preparing for an exam, if it stresses you out then you should study more.