Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Procrastination

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Jane Dickson

Document Summary

A personality, especially anger and hostility: lead to ups and down in heart rate and blood pressure, which can be detrimental to cardiovascular systems, create more unnecessary stress for themselves by getting into conflicts with others, less social support to buffer stress, tend to have poor health habits. Optimistic explanatory style: attribute setbacks to temporary situational factors c) social support, students doing exams who had more social support had higher levels of antibody that wards off respiratory infections, social support acts as a buffer reduces negative impact of stressful events. Largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as: denial of reality, fantasy, intellectualization, undoing, overcompensation anxiety or guilt. Efforts to deal with stressful events that are judged to be relatively healthful: confront problems directly, takes effort, based on realistic appraisals of stress and coping resources, learn to recognize and manage disruptive emotional reactions to stress, learn to exert some control over harmful habitual behaviours.