PSY B110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anti-Inflammatory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
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Intro to psychology: chapter 9 stress and health. Explain: how and why one person might fall apart while another person flourishes when everything seems to go wrong. Change: how to manage stress rather than your stress managing you, and how to change negative outcomes through prevention and intervention. Stressors: events in daily life; component of stress: daily hassles: the small things in life that elicit frustration. Frequent source of stress and most harmful to our health. : tripping and spilling your morning coffee, finding a parking spot, staying up late working on assignments: urban press: describes a phenomenon that is relatively new in the history of humanity. Become more patient, tolerant, understanding: major life events: things that may change the course of our life and can feel like a fork in the road, leading us down a new path. Conflict: decision making process related to possible life choices. Double approach/avoidance: having two decisions and having to choose one.