PSY 368 Midterm: Exam 2 Study Guide

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 368
• Professor: Adam Lazarewicz

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What is a stressor, and how do people typically react psychologically to stressors? stress: response to threatening events/objects/situations (cid:523)(cid:498)stressors(cid:499)(cid:524) stressors, typically: What happens when our cultural worldview is threatened: undermined cultural beliefs increased death-thought accessibility death-thought accessibility, extent to which death-related thoughts are consciously present. Tmt response #1 to terrorism: cling closely to cultural worldview, e. g. widespread acts of kindness, national pride post-9/11. Mcnally et al. (2003), ozer et al. (2003): meta-analyses: level of social support = good predictor of whether or not someone develops ptsd after trauma (emotional attachments with ingroup members) Tmt response #2 to terrorism: derogate outgroups: e. g. rise in hate crimes post-9/11. Reported hate crime incidents in the us (all groups) (source: fbi data) G w bush (cid:523)sept. (cid:884)(cid:883), (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:883)(cid:524): (cid:498)every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. (cid:499: measured agreement with favorable statement about bush(cid:495)s response to 9/(cid:883)(cid:883) (cid:523)(cid:883)-5 scale =