HLSC 1F90 Study Guide - Learned Helplessness, Maladaptation, Developmental Psychology
24 Feb 2014
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Tobacco use will now be on midterm test and the healthy sexuality will be on the final test. Lecture overview: definitions & models of stress, sources of stress. Stress: an externally imposed factor that makes demands on the individuals mind and body; it"s the mental and physical response of the mind and the body to these demands. Individuals own thoughts and perceptions determine whether a demand/ situation/ event is stressful: the same a demand/ situation/ event may evoke different levels of stress for different individuals. An example of this would be of her making a clap out of nowhere and then scaring us or she can make us visualize were at the corner. Stressors: those physical, social or mental demands/ situations. Events that evoke stress by forcing the individual to respond and adapt: stressors can be positive or negative , positive stress = eustress (e. g. vacation)
