HPEX 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Low-Density Lipoprotein, Glucocorticoid, Blood Pressure
1 Mar 2017
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Nonspecific response of the body to any demand what you experience when you believe you cannot cope effectively with a threatening situation: stressors. Specific or nonspecific agents or situations that cause the stress response in a. Cognitive transactional model body: richard lazarus: stress is viewed as relationship between demands and the power to deal with the demands without unreasonable or destructive costs. Principles: increasing stress can boost performance but only up to a certain point, too little stress may provide insufficient motivation to achieve goals, stress level at optimal point. Challenges us to grow, adapt and find creative solutions. Stress that motivates is good but not so much that it interferes with fullest potential. Examples of when people that are stressed the right way can work faster, harder, better such as hand in water, cognitive test; knee surgery, stress and rate of recovery (2x)
