PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Stress Management, Eustress
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Looking at relationship of psychological behaviours and illness. Most common cause of death are related to behaviour: excessive smoking, excessive drinking etc Patients who stare at a pleasant view vs. a patient who is in a room with no windows, the patient with pleasant view tended to go home earlier. As a response: stress is a physiological response to situations that threaten or challenge us that requires an adjustment or adaptation to that situational demand. As a transaction: there are cognitive factors involved. 2 other models/ additional judgements : person will think of the consequences to cope, the person will think of the psychological meaning and relevance thinking that doing anything poorly, reflects you largely. Used this model to explain the short term effects of stress. Described stress as a non specific response of the body. Suggests there are three phases the person reacts to stress: alarm, resistance. Our body still has that physiological arousal: exhaustion.