Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4,5,14,15: Menopause, Sick Role, Neuroticism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Sarah Stanton

Document Summary

A persons mental health has to do with how effectively they are able to cope with stress. Coping : the efforts to master, reduce, or tolerate the demands of stress. 400 distinct coping techniques found, but these could be sorted into 14 categories. It is best to use a variety of coping strategies coping strategies are very adaptive in their value they range from helpful to counterproductive. Giving up known as behavioral disengagement often associated with feelings of sadness and dejection. Martin seligman did the experiment with animals and inescapable noises, which was able to be reproduced in humans, this was called learned helplessness passive behavior produced by exposer to unavoidable aversive events. Originally it was believed that this was caused due to condition, but the model has been revised and it is now believed that is it caused by cognitive interpretation of aversive events.