CLP 4314 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Glucocorticoid, Catecholamine, Cerebral Cortex
17 Aug 2018
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The assessment of the damage that has already been done: threat. The assessment of possible future damage: challenge. The potential to overcome/even profit from the event. Confident expectations that one can cope with the stressful event. More favorable emotional reactions to the event. General adaptation syndrome: a profile of how organisms responds of stress: developed by hans selye, characterized by 3 phases, nonspecific mobilization phase. Promotes sympathetic nervous system activity: resistance phase. Organism makes efforts to cope with the threat: exhaustion phase. Occurs if the organism fails to overcome the threat and depletes its psychological resources: has been criticized on several grounds. It assigns a very limited role to psychological factors. Researchers now believe that the psychological appraisal of events is critical to experiencing stress: not all stressors produce the same endocrinological responses. People experience many debilitating effects of stress after an event has ended and even in. Sets off a chain reaction by these appraisals.
