PSY100Y5 Chapter 12: Chapter 12 summary
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Chapter 13: stress, coping, and health: the nature of stress, introduction. Stages of self deception denial, fantasy, intellectualization (isolation), undoing, overcompensation: constructive coping relatively healthful efforts that people make to deal with stressful events. Strategies: confronting problems directly, making realistic proposals of your stress and coping resources. Chanaps: learning to recognize (and inhibit) potentially disruptive emotional reactions to stress, making efforts to ensure that your body is not especially vulnerable to the possibly damaging effects of stress. The effects of stress on psychological functioning: impaired task performance, baumeister pressure can interfere with performance. Assumes pressure to perform often makes people self-conscious and that this elevated level of self- consciousness disrupts their attention. i. e. choking is common: burnout, burnout involves physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion that is. 2. attributable to long term involvement in emotionally demanding situations. Individuals who have a placid ans should be less affected by stress than those with a highly reactive ans.
