PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Endangerment, Autonomic Nervous System, Coronary Artery Disease
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Second: subjecive cogniive appraisal: personalized percepions of the threat. Coping eforts, such lashing out at others, blaming oneself, seeking help, etc. Posiive emoions alter people"s mindsets, broadening their scope of atenion, and increasing their creaivity and lexibility in problem solving. Posiive emoions can undo the lingering efects of negaive emoions. Posiive emoions can promote rewarding social interacions that help to build valuable social support, enhanced coping strategies, and other enduring personal resources. Task performance should improve with increased emoional arousal up to a point, ater which further increases in arousal become disrupive and performance deteriorates. More complex the task, the opimal level of arousal tends to decrease. Studies show that because of evoluionary processes, females may not have this response anymore. Alarm stage: when an organism irst recognizes the existence of a threat (essenially light or light) Resistance stage: physiological changes stabilize as coping eforts get under way.
