PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cortisol, Adrenal Medulla, Catecholamine
Week 8 (Stress and Coping)
Kinds of stress
- Frustration
- Where the pursuit of a goal is prevented
- The most stress inducing are failures and losses
- False hope syndrome
- You’e doig ell, so you hage you goal ad do’t eah the e goal ausig
yourself stress
- Conflict
- When you have to make a choice between two competing motivations or impulses
- Approach-Approach
- I could do this or this
- What do i eat? Cake or ice cream
- We then try to trick ourselves into thinking we made the right
choice
- Typically easy to resolve
- Avoid-Avoid
- Rock and a hard place situation
- Lesser of two evils
- Approach-Avoid
- Introverted person gets a new better job way out of the way
- If she takes the job she must meet all new people, and adjust to
an all new place
- Usually difficult to resolve and thinking about the outcome
usually causes more stress
- Change
- Ay otieale alteatios i oe’s liig iustaes that euie eadjustet
- Social readjustment rating schedule
- The higher the score, the higher that chance of illness
- Pressure
- Involves expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way
- Comes from a mismatch between what we have to (or want to) do and the amount of
time to do it in (often way too little)
- Conflicts between who we ought to be, who we want to be, and who we are
expected to be
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