PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Egocentrism, Agreeableness, Amygdala

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Neil Weiner

Document Summary

Ambient stressors: stressors established by our immediate environment. A room you are sitting in becomes noisy and you are trying to do work. Biological clocks: pressure us as to what we should do at certain ages (ex. have kids) Social expectations: pressure us as to what we should do at certain ages (ex. get married) Pressures to perform: ex. on midterm, or else you will not be able to go to graduate school, and you will ultimately get a bad job. Ulcers executive monkeys: one of the monkeys in each pair from a bleeding ulcer in a few days subsequent to the test. Therefore, it wasn"t the shock itself, but the monkey"s overreaction to a situation that caused it to die. This experiment shows that humans as a whole, and each of us as individuals, have developed an over-adaptation in terms of our response to pressure.