PSYC 1002 Chapter Notes -Compensation (Psychology), Neurogenesis, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
16 Apr 2014
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Internalizing behavior: positive emotions, emotional response and performance, the inverted u hypothesis, for simple tasks we want high arousal, for moderate tasks we want moderated arousal, for complex tastes you want low arousal. 3 different fazes if you under stress: alarm, sharp increase in physiological response, resistance, it stays heightened if stress doesn"t go away, exhaustion, stress that causes these response doesn"t go away to a point where you body can longer cope and it shuts down, also a psychological exhaustion, neurogenesis. Over compensation: trying to over achieve in certain areas, learned helplessness, people becoming passive aggressive, constantly trying to get ahead of something and then just giving up (helplessness) Health impairing behaviours: smoking, poor nutrition, lack of exercise, alcohol and drug use, risky sexual behaviour, normally goes together with substance abuse which then usually results in, transmission, misconceptions, and prevention of aids.
