Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cortisol, Reticular Formation, Glucocorticoid

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Yves Bureau

Document Summary

Factors in appraisal vulnerability: when things of value are threatened person variables: commitments, beliefs situation variables: novelty, predictability, event uncertainty, imminence, situation variables: novelty, predictability, event uncertainty, imminence, duration, temporal uncertainty. Personality in stress & coping various connections between personaly and disease possible. Wright"s multi-casual pathway type a behaviour in combination with family history of coronary heart disease, lifestyle risks and anger identified as the core risk factors. Coping: personal resources social support emotional, informational, tangible perception is what matters stress buffering hypothesis personal control perceived and behavioural control reduces stress resilience, positive motivation resilience, positive motivation. Positive psychology approach that encourages psychologists to use fewer negative or problem- focused frameworks and to focus more on effective human functioning resilience: good outcomes in spite of serious threats to adaption. Coping: stress management can assist people who are experiencing trouble coping various effective interventions exist relaxation techniques most widely used through history induce hypometabolic response inhibit hypermetabolic response.