PSY 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Coronary Artery Disease, Natural Killer Cell, Autonomic Nervous System
29 Nov 2016
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Physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to. Stressors: events that cause a stress reaction. Distress: the effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors. Eustress: the effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being. Catastrophe: an unpredictable, large-scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as overwhelming feelings of threat. Hassles: the daily annoyances of everyday life. Pressure: the psychological experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for behavior from an outside source. Uncontrollability: the degree of control that the person has over a particular event or situation: the less control a person has, the greater the degree of stress. Frustration: the psychological experience produced by the blocking of a desired goal or fulfilment of a perceived need. Possible reactions to frustrations: aggression: actions meant to harm or destroy, displaced aggression: taking out one"s frustrations on some less threatening or more available.
