PSYC 1160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Hans Selye, Health Psychology, Amygdala
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Chapter 12: stress, coping and health: groups at high risk for stressful events, young and unmarried people, immigrants, african americans, Aboriginals, people of low socioeconomic status: women less likely to experience physical assaults, disasters, fires, wartime combat, more likely to experience a potentially traumatic experience than to not, cli(cid:374)i(cid:272)ia(cid:374)"s illusio(cid:374) o(cid:448)e(cid:396)esti(cid:373)ate people"s f(cid:396)agilit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)de(cid:396)esti(cid:373)ate their resilience. Stress in the eye of the beholder: three approaches: three different interrelated and complementary ways, illustrate the big and small events that generate distress and the ways in which we perceive and respond to stressful situations. After a breakup, remind ourselves we were unhappy before it happened. No two stresses are created equal: measuring stress: something stressful for someone may be annoying for another, ex. 3: use social readjustment rating scale and the hassles scale to gauge the nature and impact of stressful events. Major life events: stressors are stimuli david holmes developed the social.
