PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Relational Theory, Stroke Volume, Strategos

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Amy Gayman

Document Summary

Stress, emotion, and coping in sport and exercise. People play an active role in how they interpret the situations they face. Often difficult to predict when stress will occur. Stress can represent what is often referred to as the stress response: consists of our physiological, cognitive, affective, and behavioral reactions when we are faced with heavy demands. Adaptive, because adrenaline flows and scan achieve peak performance. Stress can also be the process that links situational demands with an individuals reaction to the outcomes of that experience. What is stressful for one may not be stressful for someone else. Thus, stress can be defined as an experience that is produced through a personal situation relationship that"s is perceived as taxing or exceeding the persons resources. Stressors are the external events, forces, and situations that have the potential to be interpreted as stressful. Each discrete emotion is said to tell a different story about a persons adaptation all struggle .