PSYC 2310 Chapter 15: Chapter 15 – Psych 1200.docx

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Symptoms weakness, lack of coordination, mild to severe speech problems, paralysis y chronic ms is much more debilitating. Stress: a pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses, and behavioural tendencies that occurs in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and the resources available to cope with them. Stressors y place demands on us that endanger well-being, requiring us to adapt in some manner. All three of these classes of stressors can have a significant negative impact on psychological and physical well-being. Life event scales: questionnaires that measure the number (and, sometimes, the intensity) of positive and negative life events that have occurred over a specific period of time. 4 aspects of the appraised process are of particular significance: demands, resources, consequences, personal meaning. Primary appraisal: the initial appraisal of a situation as benign, irrelevant, or threatening: a perception of the severity of demands.

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