Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Safe Sex, Trait Theory, Stimulus Control

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas

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Stressors eliciting stimuli, or events that place strong demands on us o. Events that place physical or psychological demands on organisms. Transactional model of stress specifies interactions among situational factors, cognitive appraisal process, physiological responses &behavioural attempts to cope o. Stressfulness of a situation is defined by the balance between demands and resources. Life event scales quantify the amount of life stress that a person has experienced over a given period of time o. Life events can vary in terms of how positive or negative they are, as well as in predictability, controllability, chronicity, and other dimensions that affect their impact. Cognitive appraisal processes play an essential role in people"s responses to stressors. 4 aspects of the appraisal process are of particular significance: appraisal of the demands of the situation, appraisal of the resources available to cope with it o.