PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14.3: Electrodermal Activity, Brainstem, Frontal Lobe
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Coping: processes used to manage demands, stress, and conflict. Problem focused coping and emotional focused coping are used to deal with stressor. Positive psychology: scientific methods to study human strengths and potential. Focusing on positive emotions helps cope with stress. Effect of positive thinking on effect of autonomic nervous system. Optimism: tendency to have a favourable, constructive view on situations and to expect positive outcomes. Pessimists: have a negative perception of life and expect negative outcomes. Pessimistic explanatory style: tendency to interpret and explain negative events as internally based (i. e. as being due to that person rather than to an external situation) and as a constant quality. As you might expect after reading the previous section, optimism is correlated with better physical health than pessimism. Neuroticism: people high in neuroticism have negative affectivity (tendency to respond to problems with a pattern of anxiety, hostility, anger, guilt or nervousness)
