Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Substance Abuse, Thalamus, Learned Helplessness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Matthew Maxwell

Document Summary

Stress as stimulus: lazarus & folkman: outcome of a person"s appraisal that a situation is/will tax/ exceed resources and threaten well-being. Stress as response: hans seyle: non-speci c mental or somatic results of any demand upon the body. Contemporary researchers: a stimulus-response transaction in which one feels threatened or experiences loss. Any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well- being and thereby tax one"s coping abilities. Stress is a common, everyday event: both major and minor problems can be stressful, even daily hassles can have negative e ects on our well-being, stressful events can have cumulative addictive impact. Stress is subjective: not everyone feels same degree of stress from same event, the di erence may depend on how we appraise events : (lazarus & folkman, 1984) Stress may come from the environment: ambient stress: chronic negative conditions embedded in the environment that place adaptive demands on people.