PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Behavioral Medicine, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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The basics of stress: a small amount of stress can be positive. Stress response can help us survive from threats. Can mobilize our immune system: extreme or prolonged stress can be harmful. Individuals with ptsd: relationships between psychology and physiology. Get so worked up you feel sick: stress is a process! By which we respond to things: stressor object/event that causes stress. What we are responding to: stress reaction how we respond physically and emotionally to a stressor. Physiological/emotional responses or reactions: stress is less about an event, and more about our appraisal of the event. The same stressor but different reactions between individuals. We can change the way we respond to our body"s arousal. Athletes do this a lot, they change their thoughts in relation to their bodily responses: stressors fall into three main types. Damage to emotional and physical health can be significant. Can be negative or positive: both are stressful.
