Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Cirrhosis, Aerobic Exercise, Methadone

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

View stress in three ways: stimulus. Events that place strong demands on an individual: response. Presence of negative emotions is an important feature of stress response. Links the study of stress with emotion: organism-environment interaction. Pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses and behavioural tendencies that occurs in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and resources needed to cope with them. Place demands that endanger well-being requiring adaption. Greater imbalance between demands & resources more stressful a situation. Daily hassles & everyday annoyances encountered at school, at work & with family: catastrophic events. Occur unexpectedly & typically affect large numbers of people. Natural disasters, acts of war, & concentration camp confinement: major negative events. Victim of major crime or abuse, loss of loved one, academic or career failure, or illness. Sudden, unpredictable events or ones over a long period of time greatest toll on well-being.