PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Effective Stress

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1
• Professor: tucker

Document Summary

Stressors can be divided into everyday sources of stress, and catastrophic events/chronic intense stress. In everyday sources of stress, we are often faced with the following conflicts: Approach-approach conflict: a conflict arising from having to choose between desirable alternatives. Example: whether to go out for dinner or go to see a movie. Avoidance-avoidance conflict: a conflict arising from having to choose between equally undesirable alternatives. Example: you do not want to study for your exam, but you also do not want to fail. Approach-avoidance conflict: a conflict arising when a choice has both desirable and undesirable features, so you are both drawn to and repelled by the same choice. Example: you want to take a trip with your friends but you do not want to spend all of your money. Stress related to catastrophic events and chronic intense stress is somewhat more prolonged and severe.