PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Frontal Lobe, Lymphocyte, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Dasom Lee

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The game plan: what is stress, biological correlates of stress, stress and health, coping with stress, health psychology, the game plan. Various manifestations of stress: emotional, physical, cognitive, behavioral. What is stress: stress: an unpleasant emotional state that results from the perception of danger, stressor: a stimulus that serves as a source of stress. Sources of stress: cognitive appraisal models of stress, examples of stressors, stress exists in the eye of the beholder, daily hassles, major life events, catastrophic disasters. Acute: stressors that occur occasionally/over a short period. Ex: being stressed over midterm 2; infrequent demanding work assignment: positive vs. Negative: example of a positive stressor = holidays, planning a birthday party, planning vacation, example of a negative stressor = failing a class. The impact of chronic stressors (cohen study: cohen et al. (1980) proximity(cid:524) on children"s academic performance (confounding variables) Impact of chronic environmental stress (i. e. noise from airplanes flying in close.