PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Blood Sugar, Acute Stress Reaction, Allostatic Load

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We refer to adjustive demands as stressors to the effects they create within an organism as stress and to efforts to deal with stress as coping strategies. The notion of stress can be broken down into eustress (positive stress) and distress (negative stress) For example, stress experienced during a wedding wwould be eutstress, but during a funeral, distress. Adjustive demands, or stressors, stem from sources that fall into 3 basic categories: frustrations, conflcits and pressures. A wide range of obstacles, both external and internal, can lead to frustration. In many cases, stress results from the simultaneous occurrence of two or more incompatible needs or motives conflicts with which every\one has to cope may be classified as approach-avoidance, double approach and double avoidance types. Approach-avoidance conflicts involve strong tendencies to approach and to avoid the same goal. Double-approach conflicts involve choosing between two or more desirable goals. Double-avoidance conflicts are those that involve choices between undesirable conflicts.

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