Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Hans Selye, Learned Helplessness, The The

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

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This de nition of stress applies to happy events in one"s life as well, if the event causes a person to change his or her daily routine. Stress: the negative feelings and beliefs that occur whenever people feel unable to cope with demands of their environment. Perceived control: belief that we can in uence our environment in ways that determine whether we experience positive or negative outcomes: david glass and jerome singer button, noise experiment (pg. Self-e cacy: the belief in one"s ability to carry out speci c actions that produce desired outcomes: self-e cacy increases the likelihood that people will engage in the desired behaviour in two ways. First, it in uences people"s persistence and e ort at a task, people low self-e cacy tend to give up easily whereas people high in self-e cacy set higher goals, try harder, and persist more in the face of failure-thereby.