Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cognitive Restructuring, Self-Control, Stress Management

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

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Stress and coping: two approaches to defining stress. Stress is an environmental stimulus: e. g. exams are stressful, stimuli are called stressors. It"s a response to a stressor: e. g. I feel stressed at exam time: 2 types of responses, psychological (thoughts and feeli(cid:374)gs, aka distress, e. g. i"(cid:373) (cid:374)er(cid:448)ous, a(cid:374)(cid:454)ious(cid:895, physiological (e. g. heart speeds up, early research: how stressors influence physiological responses. Hans selye (effects of prolonged stress: the general adaptation syndrome (gas, phase 1: alarm (body is aroused and mobilized, phase 2: resistance (body adapts to stressor) If a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ated for too lo(cid:374)g, the (cid:271)od(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)es (cid:862)e(cid:454)hausted(cid:863: a 3rd approach: stress is a process. Involves continuous interactions (transactions) between the person and the environment: stressors influence people, people influence impact of stressors. A modern definition of stress: a condition that results when person-environment transactions lead to a perceived discrepancy (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) situatio(cid:374)al de(cid:373)a(cid:374)ds a(cid:374)d the perso(cid:374)"s (cid:271)iops(cid:455)(cid:272)hoso(cid:272)ial resour(cid:272)es for (cid:272)opi(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith these demands.