PSYCH 3AB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Motivation, Dither, Psych
8 Dec 2015
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Stress a physical, hormonal, and psychological response to the perception of danger or threat. With puberty, the biological stress system becomes more sensitive. Coping the various ways adolescents develop to handle situations and reactive that create stress. Problem-focused coping more likely to be used when it seems possible to change a harmful, threatening, or challenging situations: techniques such as confronting the situation and trying to, giving oneself positive instructions, seeking practical support. Emotion-focused coping more likely to be used when it seems manage it that nothing can be done to change a harmful, threatening, or challenging situation. Parents and coping: the ways parents deal with their problems offer the child examples of more or less mature ways of coping with difficulties. Teaching coping context: study in france showed that coping can be taught in a school, when an adolescent is able to cope effectively with a problem, that success strengthens the teen"s confidence and sense of self-efficacy.
