PSY 383 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Absenteeism, Catecholamine, Role Conflict

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 383
• Professor: O' Connor

Document Summary

Negative emotional experience accompanied by predictable biochemical, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral changes: aimed at altering the stressful event or accommodating to its effects. Primary appraisal: understanding what an event is and what it will mean, events are appraised for their harm, threat, or challenge. Secondary appraisal: assessing whether personal resources are sufficient to meet the demands of the environment. Person-environment fit: results from the process of appraising events, assessing potential resources, and responding to the events. Body is aroused and motivated via the sympathetic nervous system and endocrine system when a threat is perceived: result: mobilizes an organism to attack the threat or to flee. The three phases of selye"s general adaptation syndrome: Assigns a limited role to psychological factors. Not all stressors produce the same endocrinological responses. Continued activation accumulates the most damage to physiological systems. Fails to address the debilitating effects of stress.