Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Hans Selye, Coping With, Adrenal Gland
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View stress in 3 different ways: stimulus. Stressors: events or stimuli that place strong demands on us: response. Response that has cognitive, physiological, and behavioral component: organism-environment interaction. Stress= pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses and behavioral tendencies that happen because of an imbalance between situational demands and resources. Range in severity: from micro-stressors to catastrophic events to major negative events. Characteristics of stressors: intensity/severity, duration, predictability, controllability, chronicity. Measuring stressful life events: researchers made life event scales. Life event scales: quantify amount of life stress person experienced over given period. Asks if a particular event occurred, if event was positive or negative, if it was a major event. Four types of appraisal in response to stressor (lazarus: appraisal of demands of situation. Evaluate the demands of the situation and significance to you: appraisal of resources of available to cope with it. If demands is greater than resources, will experience stress. Judgment of what consequences of situation could be.