PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Stress (Biology), Autonomic Nervous System, Organism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

Document Summary

Explain the physiological basis of the stress response. Describe how stress afects the immune system and contributes to the development of diseases. Explain how individual diferences in cogniive appraisal afect our responses to a stressor. Explain the role of aitudes in coping with stress. Difereniate between efecive and inefecive coping strategies for dealing with stress. Describe the factors that afect whether we make healthy or unhealthy choices. Describe how evoluionary history inluences life choices. Describe the environmental factors that inluence people to make healthy and unhealthy life choices (theory of planned behaviour) The reacions we normally have to perceived threats. When this response is prolonged it is hard on our bodies. Srrs or social readjustment raing scale: 43 stressful life events. Chronic stress can increase a person"s likelihood of heart disease, cancer, impaired immune system funcioning, and high blood pressure. Alarm: when an organism is irst confronted with a stressor, response centered around autonomic nervous system, may experience shock.