Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Hypnosis, Sigmund Freud, James W. Pennebaker

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Today"s lecture: protecing against stress, a brief history of freud, psychodynamic theory. Note: *glucoricsoids and corisol are in charge of stress. Exposure therapy common take you back to the situaion and you have to exinguish your own responses to it which is really hard. Training in coping diferent styles you can take to get it down. Social support ability to rely on and talk to others. Those with weak social ies (less social support) were twice as likely to die. Students asked to talk about traumaic or trivial events. Results: higher immune funcioning, more white blood cell count. 50% fewer visits to campus health services in next 6 months: hardiness. Type a ime conscious and more likely to have coronary event than others. If you score higher on hardiness you can beter handle stressful events: coping self-eicacy. Self eicacy is the belief that you can cope and if you believe you can, you handle stress beter: opimism.