PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Autonomic Nervous System, Menopause, Cortisol
17 May 2020
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Major vs. minor stressors (death, divorce vs. traffic, tests) Stressors don"t have to be negative events. Talked about how we interpret things that happen to us determines whether or not. Theory: there are two kinds of appraisals that we make they"re stressful. Primary appraisal: whether a situation is important to you. Secondary appraisal: whether or not we have the resources to cope with the event. having a child or getting married is stressful because it is so important to us. This is why we get stressed out by even the positive events in our lives. Anxiety is very physiologically similar to sexual arousal (don"t know what this relates to) Major stressors are often discrete, one-time events that are unpredictable. Minor stressors are often every day, predictable things. Exhaustion (if your body isn"t able to relax) He figured out that if rats were stressed for too long, they got sick, their immune system started to fail, they got ulcers, etc.
