PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hans Selye, Walter Bradford Cannon, Sympathetic Nervous System

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Jackie Carnegie

Document Summary

Emoions, as well as personality, aitudes, behaviors, and responses to stress, can have an impact on our overall health. Health psychology studies these impacts, as part of the broader ield of behavioral medicine. o o. Stressor - acivity or other simulus that causes stress. Appraisal - an assessment or esimaion of the worth, value, or quality of a person or thing. Stress isn"t something that happens to you; it"s a process in which you paricipate. The process includes the stressor, cogniive appraisal, body response, and coping strategies. The advantage of breaking stress into these components is that we can see opions for altering each of these diferent factors. Quesions to ask yourself when facing a possible stressor: o o. There are a few condiions that are inherently and universally stressful; we can oten choose our appraisal and our responses. There may be a spectrum of levels of intensity and persistence of stressors.