PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala, Cortisol
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Define different aspects of stress, including stressors and the stress response. Understand the integrated stress response involving psychological and biological characteristics. Understand the effects of stressors on mental health and physical health. Describe factors that protect against the effects of stressors on health. Stress: wide range of concepts from external environmental stimuli to internal emotional experiences and bodily responses. Stress is adaptive and helped ancestors survive and thrive. Prolonged stress is harmful and can impair functioning. Eustress: good stress, which includes external circumstances, internal emotional experiences, and bodily responses that can be beneficial and motivating. Distress: bad stress, which includes external circumstances, internal emotional experiences, and bodily responses that can be harmful, reduce motivation, and impair functioning. Yerkes-dodson law: a proposed inverted u shaped curve for the relationship between stress and performance, which specifies that too little of too much stress impair performance.
