PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter Midterm: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, How Can It Be (Album), Explanatory Style
6 Nov 2013
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Stress a negative emotional experience accompanied by predictable biochemical, physiological, cognitive, and behavioural changes that are directed either toward altering the stressful event or accommodating to its effects. Stress is the consequence of a person"s appraisal processes. The assessment of whether personal resources are sufficient to meet the demands of the environment. Stress results from the process of appraising events (as harmful, threatening, or challenging), of assessing potential responses, and of responding to those events. When an organism perceives a threat, the body is rapidly aroused and motivated via the sympathetic nervous system and the endocrine system. Now more commonly fight refers to aggressive responses to stress, whereas flight may be seen in social withdrawal or withdrawal through substance use such as alcohol or drugs. Exposed rates to stressors, all created similar physiological response. When an organism confronts a stressor, it mobilizes itself for action. The response is nonspecific in regards to the stressor.
