PSYC-105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Natural Disaster, Stressor, Coping With
1 Oct 2018
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The tension, discomfort, or physical symptoms that arise when a stressor strains our ability to cope: easy things don"t cause stress. Things like exams or accidents are stressors, not the actual stress itself. Stressor: a stimulus in our environment that causes stress. Traumatic event: extreme stressor that causes long term psychological or health consequences. War, plane crash, natural disaster, having someone murdered before you: when it comes to stress, humans generally are resilient. People can cope with stress in a general sense, while others will develop ptsd and other symptoms. Bad things may happen to us, but we"re designed to cope/manage with it. What types of people respond the most to certain types of stress. If you talk to people after a breakup, the younger people feel horrible to a loss of relationship, but the older people will be able to cope because they"ve been through it.
