PSY 1102 Midterm: Section4

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Ersin Asliturk

Document Summary

Some terms psychologists use to talk about stress: Many people report being afected by stress . Stressor: an event of condiion which we view as threatening, challenging, or overwhelming. Appraisal: refers to deciding whether to view something as a stressor. Stress reacion: refers to any emoional and physical responses to the stressor such as rapid heartbeat, elevated corisol levels, and crying. Stress the process of appraising and responding to events which we consider threatening or challenging. Stress isn"t something that happens to you; it"s a process in which you paricipate. The process includes the stressor, cogniive appraisal, body response, coping strategies. The advantage of breaking stress into these components is that we can see opions for altering each of these diferent factors. There are few condiions that are inherently and universally stressful; we can oten choose our appraisal and our responses. **extreme, chronic physical threats or challenges (such as noise or starvaion)