[PSY 707] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (56 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 707
• Professor: Alba Agostino

Document Summary

Stress can be experienced emotionally, physiologically, behaviorally, and cognitively: most healthy people return to their homeostatic baseline after a stressful experience. Alarm stage: you are aware of a stressor, and your reaction. Resistance stage: body deals with stressors until its natural resources begin to deplete, but when your system is depleted it goes into the exhaustion stage. Exhaustion stage: body"s systems break down and illness or premature death ensue. Selye did not believe that all stress was negatitive. Selye thought there were two types of stress: distress (negative) and eustress (positive) Stress is like spice - in the right proportion it enhances the flavor of a dish. Too little produces a bland, dull meal; too much may choke you. ~donald tubesing. Positive stress is like jittery, butterflies, like going on a first date except the body reacts the same when you are stressed about something bad.