Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Relapse Prevention, Social Group, Stress Management

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Stress is a pattern of cognitive appraisals, psych responses, and behavioral tendencies that occur in response to perceive imbalance between situation demands and the resources needed to cope with them. Also a pattern of physiological, biological, emotional and cognitive response to real or imagined stimuli that are perceived as blocking a goal or endangering our well-being. Stressors are situations that place demands on organisms that tax or exceeds their resources. Can range from micro stressors to severe stressors. Life events are questionnaires that measure the number of positive and negative life events that have occurred over a specific period of time: stress response. Initial appraisal of a of a situation as benign, irrelevant, or threatening. A perception of the severity of demands. Secondary: one"s judgement of the adequacy of personal resources needed, selye"s gas (general adaptation syndrome) to cope with a stressor. Alarm reaction: the shift to sympathetic dominance causes increased arousal.

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