Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Adrenal Gland, Guided Imagery

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

Document Summary

View stress in three different ways: a stimulus, a response, an organism-environment interaction. Stressors: eliciting stimuli or events that place strong demands on us. Stress: occurs in response to an imbalance between situational demands and the resources needed to cope with them. Life event scales: quantify the amount of life stress that a person has experienced over a given period of time. More women than men attempt suicide, more men than women die by suicide. Appraisal process: appraisal of the demands of the situations (primary appraisal, appraisal of the resources available to cope with it (secondary appraisal, judgments of what the consequences could be, appraisal of the personal meaning. Adrenal glands produce hormones; cortisol triggers increase in blood sugars. Rape trauma syndrome: for months or even years after the rape, victims mat feel nervous and fear another attack by the rapist, decreased enjoyment of sexual activity. Post-traumatic stress disorder: severe anxiety caused by traumatic life events.