PSYC18H3 Chapter 7: chapter 7 notes
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Stress produces vigilant attention and heightened activity in the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system. It is an adaptive process, helping people respond to threats, dangers, and punishments with quick energetic efficiency. Lazarus said that there are different types of stress. The stress associated with humiliation is different from stress associated with associated with losing a job or a spouse. Each different type of stress promotes a particular type of emotion by means of a specific appraisal process. Lazarus proposed that appraisals involve judgements of how good or bad an event is. Secondly, appraisals concern the individuals goals and aspirations and how he or she is interacting with the environment. Thus emotions refer to both events in the world and to individual"s concerns; they relate the outer world to the inner self. According to stein, trabasso, and liwag appraisals that give rise to emotions also involve beliefs, inferences, and plans.
