Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Rheumatism, Survivor Guilt

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-de Hoog

Document Summary

Transactional model of stress: lazarus: a pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses and behavioural tendencies that occur in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and the persons ability to cope with them. Stressors: potentially threating events, microstressors: life events, daily hassles, catastrophic events: natural disasters, war, major negative events: victim of major crime/abuse, loss of loved one, academic future, controllable vs. uncontrollable. Life event scales: gauge the severity of a stressor by measuring intensity, duration, predictability, controllability, and chronicity. General adaptation syndrome (gas): physiological response pattern o strong and prolonged stressors, model refers to physical side of stress, limitation: ignores cognitive appraisals of stress. Alarm reaction: (cid:498)fight or flight(cid:499) response: rapid increase in physiological arousal, adrenal medulla produces epinephrine, adrenal cortex produces cortisol. Triggers an increase in blood sugars, supresses, immune system, anti- inflammatory. Constant secretion of cortisol causes depression/anxiety disorder.