Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Brainstorming, Procrastination

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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4. 1 the concept of coping: coping: efforts to master, reduce, or tolerate demands created by stress. Giving up: learned helpessness: a passive behaviour produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events, transferred to situations even when they are not helpless, cognitive interpretation of aversive events determines whether they develop learned helplessness. *believe events beyond control: behaviour disengagement: associated with increased rather than decreased distress, giving up adaptive when: goals truly un attainable: better health, lower key stress hormones. Activing aggressively: aggression: any behaviour intended to hurt someone physically or emotionally, frustration-aggression hypothesis: held that aggression is always due to frusturation. Recent research: not always true: displa(cid:272)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t aggressio(cid:374): taki(cid:374)g it out o(cid:374) people (cid:449)ho did(cid:374)"t do a(cid:374)ythi(cid:374)g, catharsis: release of emotional tention. Behaving in an aggressive manner tends to fel aggression: eg. Violent video games: related to increased aggression, physiological arousal, and decreased prosocial behaviour. Desensitized people to aggressive acts: aggressive behaviour elicits aggressive responses and generates more anger.