PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Anxiety Disorder, Relaxation Technique, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Selye"s general adaption syndrome chronic exposure to severe stressors produce a sequence of three physiological stages: alarm, resistance and exhaustion. When stress is continuous as opposed to episodic, we produce a continued stress response. Hardy found that hardy individuals take stressful occurrences as challenges. How we initially size up the stressor determines our response to it. Chd type b pattern: less competitive, less hostile, more patient, easygoing, tolerant, and they moved and talked more slowly, they were also less likely to suffer from chd. People who exhibit typa a personality were more likely to smoke and have high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Personality variables are involved in susceptibility to heart attack and other diseases. Occurs in victims of rape, torture, natural disasters, or motor accidents support one receives after their experience can make the situation worse/better excessive use of alcohol can co-occur with ptsd.
