PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Hans Selye, Sympathetic Nervous System, Cortisol

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Benjamin Cheung, Simon Lolliot

Document Summary

Stress is part of our daily lives and everyone will experience this at one point in their lives. There are different types of stressors such as mental pressure, physically demanding events or circumstances, stress from physical illness etc. Examples are catastrophic events such as war or natural disasters. Major changes in life such as divorce, death or a high-pressure work situation. Stress can come from both positive and negative changes. It is difficult to define stress because there are different ways to approach the term and there are many different definitions and ways that stress can affect different people. When you are required to choose between 2 desirable options. When the choice at hand has both positive and negative repercussions. When you have to choose between 2 undesirable options. Hans selye, studied stress research claimed that stressors of many different kinds result in a nonspecific bodily response.