PS102 Lecture Notes - Substance Abuse, Pituitary Gland, Learned Helplessness
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Major (extreme events) and everyday (daily hassels: frustration/loss. Not getting the grade you wanted on a test, a death, a brief loss: conflict. A choice between two things that you want. A choice between two things that you do not want. A choice whether to pursue one thing that has both pros and cons: change. Change means a readjustment and change is generally positive: pressure. No is subjective, everyone perceives stress differently. Event: subjective cognitive appraisal how you define the event that affects your stress; negative appraisals ex. hopeless, will it exceed my ability to cope; positive appraisals: will i learn something. Positive emotions: can occur with the negative emotions (co- occuring) Growth and learning experiences (negative emotions can bring out positive emotions) Pituitary gland adrenal cortex hormones (cortisol) Resistance when your body is resisting the stress and stabilizing but long term cortisol release decreases our health which will lead to:
