Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Sertraline, Transtheoretical Model, Bronchitis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Chapter 15 stress, coping, and health care. Psychologists have viewed stress in three different ways a stimulus, a response, The nature of stress and an organism environment interaction. Stress can be in terms of eliciting a stimulus or events that place strong demands on us. Stress is also viewed as a response that has cognitive, physiological, and behaviour components. The presence of negative emotions is an important feature of the stress response and links the study of stress with the field of emotion. The third way of viewing stress is viewed as personal interaction/transaction between the organism and the environment. Stress in this view is a pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses, and behavioural tendencies that occurs in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and the resources needed to cope with them. Stressors are specific kinds of eliciting stimuli. They place demands on us that endanger well being, requiring us to adapt in some manor.