PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Sympathetic Nervous System, Hans Selye, Major Depressive Disorder
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Verbal memory, verbal ability, numeric ability, inductive reasoning, spatial orientation, perceptual speed; are operation definitions of intelligence. Stress: subjective experience that can include sudden traumatic experiences, continuing pressures that seem uncontrollable, and small irritations that wear you down. Daily stressors or hassles can add up to significant stress over time: people tend to seek help for major life events and not hasseles, which helps to explain deterinal events. Common stressors: work-related problems, noise, bereavement and loss, poverty, powerlessness, and low status, recent immigration. Chronic stress lasting a month or more boost risk of catching a cold. No direct relation between chronic stressors and illness: does not affect everyone the same way. Three factors that influence responses to stressors: individual physiological differences, psychological factors, peoples behaviors under stress. General apadation syndrome [hans selye: a series of psychological responses to stressors that occurs in three stages.
