PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Psych, Jean Piaget, Cognitive Psychology
9 Sep 2020
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Coping skills stress is a transaction + types of coping. Stress = transaction between people and their environment. Whether an event is deemed stressful depends on our appraisal: primary and secondary appraisal. Reduce the negative emotional responses associated with stress, by putting a positive spin , emotional expression. Helpful when stressor is uncontrollable or extremely high. Taking direct steps to solve the problem. Generating alternative solutions, weigh their costs and benefits. Helpful when the problem is controllable and of moderate stress. Most of 20th century focused on developmental psychology" (infant, child, adolescent) Late 1980s lifespan perspective" began to emerge. Key assumptions: development is a lifelong process, development involves constant loss as well as gain, development is determined by a multiplicity of causes, development is characterized by plasticity across the lifespan. Development involves constant loss as well as gain. Development is determined by a multiplicity of causes. Plasticity = changes occurring as a result of experiences.
