HDE 100C Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Procedural Memory, Motor Skill, Mental Model

• School: UC-Davis
• Department: Human Development
• Course: HDE 100C
• Professor: Hollis- Woo Nicole

Document Summary

Stress physical, cognitive, and emotional responses that organisms display in reaction to stressors (environment demands or life events) Coping the antidote to stress; ways to cope with stress. Response-oriented viewpoint focused on the physiological reactions within the individual from exposure to environment stressors. Arousal and performance (yerkes & dodson, 1908) at moderate levels of stress, the individual will have enough energy to push to do tasks optimally. Acute stress response (cannon, 1915/1929) preparing the body to fight or flee. Alarm reaction alert, energized, prepared for fight or flight. Resistance the body attempts to regain normal state. Exhaustion alarm-stage responses reappear; if stressors are severe enough, can be accompanied by physical illness/death. Stimulus-oriented viewpoint explanations of stress that are focused on the stressors themselves that trigger stress reactions. Rating of life-change events (holmes & rahe, 1967) a checklist rating the stressors in 43 types of life events. Short-term life events cause immediate problems with definite beginning and end.