Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes -Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Coronary Artery Disease, Sympathetic Nervous System
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The nature of stress: eliciting stimuli or events (stressors) that place among demands on us, response that have cognitive, physiological and behavioural components, person-situation interaction or transaction between organisms and environment. Stress is a pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses and behavioural tendencies that occurs in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and the resources needed to cope with them. Situation demands/resources; stressor characteristics cognitive appraisal physiological responses coping. Stimuli that place demands on us that endanger us and require us to adapt. Sympathetic nervous system"s adrenal medulla epinephrine sense stressor and signal hypothalamus. Amount of life stress, type of appraisal, intensity, predictability, controllability experienced over duration of time. Starting point of stress is how we appraise the situation. Primary appraisal of the demands of the benign, neutral/irrelevant situation. Secondary appraisal of the resources available to cope with it e. g. knowledge, abilities, supportive peers. Appraisal of the personal meaning (what the outcome might imply about us)