Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Protective Factor, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Survivor Guilt

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Ronald R Holden

Document Summary

The nature of stress stress is a pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses, and behavioural tendencies that occurs in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and the resources needed to cope with them. Stressors specific kinds of eliciting stimuli whether physical/psychological, they place demands on us that endanger well-being, requiring us to adapt in some manner the greater the imbalance between demands and resources, the more stressful a situation is. Micro-stressors: daily hassles, everyday annoyances we encounter at school, on the job, in family relations. Catastrophic events: unexpectedly and typically affect large numbers of people; natural disasters, acts of war and concentration camp confinement. Major negative events: being the victim of a major crime or sexual abuse, the death or loss of a loved one, an academic or career failure, major illness, requires major adaptation. Most modern researchers now define stress in terms of negative life changes only.