PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Positive Affectivity, Biopsychosocial Model, Rhinovirus
20 Apr 2016
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To be well-adjusted means to have low anxiety and stress, as well as satisfaction with life, and happiness. Stress: stress can be a feeling, a thought/cognition, and a physiological response (increase hr, bp). A stressor is an event/situation usually outside the person that is interpreted by individual in a way that activates stress process. Stress process leads to a return of the body to baseline (homeostatic) level in three different ways: physiologically, emotionally, and cognitively. A stress is anything that initiates the stress process: death, unemployment, financial challenge, unexplained lump", missing a bus, failing a midterm, etc. General adaption syndrome: a physiological response to stress that involves: Alarm: fight or flight a sympathetic nervous system response. Coping: cognitive and behavioural efforts to manage or alleviate perceived demands. Cognitive reframing it isn"t so bad, really. Personality influences every single part of the transactional model of stress. Hardiness: when a person is resilient in the face of major stressors.
