PSYC 1002 Study Guide - Autonomic Nervous System, Learned Helplessness, Positive Psychology

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The featured study in the text explores the effects of stress on contracting the common cold. f. i. j. Impulses compete for expression: approach-approach conflict choice must be made between 2, avoidance-avoidance conflict choice must be made between 2. Unattractive goals: approach-avoidance conflict a choice must be made about whether to pursue a single goal that has both attractive and. Unattractive aspects: life changes significant alterations in one"s living circumstances that require. The scale assigns numerical values to 43 major life events. These values are supposed to reflect the magnitude of the readjustment required by each change. Respondents are asked to indicate how often they experiences any of these 43 events during a certain period of time(typically one year). The numbers associated with each event checked are then added. This total is an index of the amount of change related stress the person has recently experienced: many critics have argued that the srrs does not measure change exclusively.