PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Biopsychosocial Model, Health Psychology, Learned Helplessness
20 Mar 2019
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Chapter 14: stress, coping, and health: many students experience stress in university, 40% reported high stress during exams. The nature of stress: stress are any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well-being and that thereby tax one"s coping abilities. Major types of stress: acute stressors are threatening events that have a relatively short duration and a clear endpoint, chronic stressors are threatening events that have a relatively long duration and no readily apparent time limit. Frustration: frustration occurs in any situation in which the pursuit of some goal is thwarted, most frustrations are brief and insignificant. Conflict: conflict occurs when two or more compatible motivations or behavioural impulses compete for expression, 3 types: (lewin, miller) Approach-approach conflict is when a choice must be made between two attractive goals least stressful, reasonably happy ending whichever way you decide to go. Avoidance-avoidance conflict is when a choice must be made between two unattractive goals most unpleasant and highly stressful.
