PSYCH 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sensation Seeking
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Challenges: demands that people meet: if dealt with, then success and no stress. Stressors: challenges that are not immediately resolved: acute: short duration, chronic: long duration. Once they are taken care of, stress goes away. Impose some kind of strain: can be physical. Heat, cold, pain, injury, hunger: can be psychosocial. Demands at work, school, social, bullying, or self-imposed: are universal types often vary with ages. If left unresolved, it can lead to physical and/or mental disorders and illnesses. Reactions: automatic, often unthinking after stressor happens (reactive: slamming on break, crying, fighting, talking running. Responses: choice among coping strategies for most effective dealing with them (proactive: proactive coping before they happen, think of possibilities to prepare, have strategies for when the event happens. Stress is only acute for most animals: life threatening, eat or be eaten, when threat is over, stress effects decrease. Humans can be upset for long periods of time.
