PSYO 121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Electromyography, Telomerase, Catecholamine

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 121
• Professor: Susan Holtzman

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14. 1 sources of stress: what gets to you. Stressors are personal events that affect the comfortable pattern of our lives and little annoyances that bug us day after day: what causes stress, chronic sources of stress, relationship between lack of perceived control. Thomas holmes and richard rahe observed that major life change cause stress and that causes illness. Positive events still can be stressful- like a wedding: happiness can counteract those effects. Sources of stress that occur continuously or repeatedly. Strained relationships, discrimination, bullying, overwork, money troubles: daily stressors cause more symptoms. Many chronic stressors are linked to social relationships: differe(cid:374)t so(cid:272)ial group, eth(cid:374)i(cid:272)it(cid:455), popularit(cid:455) . Environmental stress: city: fast passed, violence, noise, traffic, rural: lonely, isolated. Events are more stressful when there is nothing to do - no way to deal with the challenge. Crowded conditions: stressors are events and threats that place specific demands on a person or threaten well- being.