PSYC 3170 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hypertension, Adrenal Gland, Learned Helplessness
30 Jan 2017
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Physical (direct material or bodily challenge) and psychological (how individuals perceive circumstances in their lives) Approaches: focus on environment, where stress is a stimulus, stressors; can treat st(cid:396)ess as (cid:396)espo(cid:374)se, fo(cid:272)usi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) people(cid:859)s (cid:396)ea(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, st(cid:396)ai(cid:374); see st(cid:396)ess as a p(cid:396)o(cid:272)ess, looks at relationship between person and environment, transactions. Stress: circumstance in which transactions lead a person to perceive a discrepancy between the physical or psychological demands of a situation and the resources of their biological, psychological or social systems. Demand, resource or discrepancy may be real or believed to exist. Stress often comes from inaccurate perceptions of discrepancies: appraising events as stressful. Appraisal is the assessment process of transactions. Primary: assess meaning of the situation for our well-being, lead to judgment of either irrelevant, good (benign-positive) or stressful. Can influence stress even if it is someone else suffering, transaction is vicarious, feel empathy for them.
