PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kurt Lewin, Stress Management, Stressor
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Perceived stress scale: standard test to evaluate individual"s extent of stress over a time period; Changes: all stressful events involve change, most people have strong preference for order, continuity and predictability: People prefer to having things under control: more changes are required, more stress is generated; Frustration: definition: feelings that occurs when person is prevented from reaching goal, possible causes: delays, lack of resources, losses, failure and discrimination; Self-imposed stress: some see challenging situations as opportunity for success rather than failure - Self-create something so that you can prove yourself to be smarter than other people: others create stress apart from stressful events through self-defeating beliefs -- every day is going to be the end of the world; Health psychology: sub-field of psychology, concerned with relationship between psychological factors and physical health and illness, stress management and disease prevention, research to understand biological mechanisms that link stress to lowered immunity and poor health;
