Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3&4: Smoking Cessation, Sport Psychology, Culture Of Asia
20 Nov 2012
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When ppl go major upheavals in their lives, their chances of dying increases. Holocaust survivors who were teens at the end of the ww2, still continue to experience depression and paranoia. Psychological distress is highest among students than of the general. Hans seyle defined stress as the body"s physiological response to threatening situations. Homes and rahe stress is the degree to which people have to change and readjust their lives. Holmes and rahe made the social readjustment scale respondent get a list of life events and each of which is assigned to certain points depending on stressful it is (eg: being raped compared to an exam). Higher the score, the worst their mental and physical health. Flaws: the study was correlational not experimental, focused on stressors experienced by only the middle class and under- represented stressors of low-income and poor people.
