PSYC 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Asthma, Antibody, Walter Bradford Cannon
23 May 2016
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Describe the experience of stress in everyday life, and distinguish between primary and secondary appraisals of stress. Summarize the evidence on ambient stress, ethnicity-related stress, and acculturation stress. Stress any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well-being and thereby tax one"s coping abilities. 1/3 american"s reported living with extreme stress , half believed it has. Major and minor stresses, one can trigger the other and both can have major or minor effects. Top 3 stresses: money, work, the economy. Stressful events can have a cumulative or additive impact. 3-1b stress lies in the eye of the beholder. Appraisals account for reactions to potential stressors: stressful event for one could be routine to another (ex. Primary appraisal an initial evaluation of whether an event is: irrelevant to you, relevant but not threatening, stressful. Secondary appraisal an evaluation of your coping resources and options for dealing with the stress.
