PSY100Y5 Chapter 13: PSYChapter 13.doc
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Chapter 13: stress, coping, and health: the nature of stress, introduction. Chanaps: pressure has a negative effect on task performance. problems. Chanaps: substantial period of time, 3rd stage stage of exhaustion if stress can"t be overcome, bodily resources depleted, and organism may collapse; Stages of self deception denial, fantasy, intellectualization (isolation), undoing, overcompensation: constructive coping relatively healthful efforts that people make to deal with stressful events. The effects of stress on psychological functioning: impaired task performance. Chanaps: baumeister pressure can interfere with performance. Negative attitudes toward oneself, one"s work, and life in general. Individuals who have a placid ans should be less affected by stress than those with a highly reactive ans. Chapter 13: stress, coping, and health: may serve as buffer to physical affects of stress, alcohol and drug use. Reactions to illness: the decision to seek treatment, people high in anxiety and neurotism tend to report more symptoms of illness than others.
