Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Physical Exercise, Transtheoretical Model, Motivational Interviewing

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

Document Summary

Viewed stress in 3 different ways: a stimulus, a response, and an organism-environment interaction. Stress as a response has cognitive, physiological, and behavioural 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. A person-situation interaction, or transaction between the organism and the environment. Stress is a pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological response, and behavioural tendencies that occurs in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and the resources needed to cope with them. Stressors: eliciting stimulus, or events that place strong demands on us. Whether physical or psychological, they place demands on us that endanger well-being, requiring us to adapt in some manner. The greater the imbalance between demands and resources, the more stressful a situation is likely to be. Life event scales used to quantify the amount of life stress that a person has experienced over a given period of time.