Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Tachycardia, Sympathetic Nervous System, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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

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Psychologists have viewed stress in 3 different ways: Some define stress in terms of eliciting stimuli or events that place strong demands on us. Stress has been viewed as a response that has cognitive, physiological, and behavioral components. Person-situation interaction between an organism and the environment. A pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses, and behavioral tendencies that occurs in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and the resources needed to cope with them. A pattern of physiological, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive responses to real or imagined stimuli that are perceived as blocking a goal or endangering our well-being. Stress process: stressors, catastrophes, life changes, hassles. Intervening factors: appraisal typically in terms in self ability o. Social support o o: coping, stress reaction o. Place demands on us that endanger well-being, requiring us to adapt in some manner. Microstressors the daily hassles and everyday annoyances. Catastrophic events often occur unexpectedly and typically affect large numbers of people.