Psychology 2990A/B Chapter : Textbook summary of 2990. Perfect complementary to your readings!
13 Dec 2011
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When people undergo major upheaval in their lives, their chance of dying increases. Holocaust victims still experience psychological trauma 40 years later. Physical and psychological health are closely tied to stress in our lives. Stress: bodies physiological response to threatening events, degree to which people have to. Social readjustment rating scale: participants check off the events that have occurred to change and readjust their lives in response to an external event them. Assigned life change units" to every stressful event. Scores are correlated with frequency of sickness of physical complaints. Most studies use correlation designs not experimental (correlation vs. causation) Some argue it"s not the life changes but the negative outlooks of people. Subjective stress not objective that causes the problems (only if you interpret it as stressful, katy. Stress: negative feelings and beliefs that occur whenever people feel unable to cope with.
