PSY 1102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Headache, B Cell, Rush Hour

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

Document Summary

Stress the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. Stressors fall into three main types: catastrophes, significant life changes, and daily hassles. Catastrophes catastrophes are unpredictable large - scale events, such as wars, earthquakes, and famines. Significant life changes life transitions are often keenly felt. Even happy events, such as getting married, can be stressful. Other changes leaving home, becoming divorced, losing a job, having a loved one die often happen during young adulthood. Daily hassles events don"t have to remake our lives to cause stress. Type a friedman and rosenman"s term for competitive, hard - driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger - prone people. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. id a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.