Stress – process of appraising an event as threatening challenging or responding to it

Stressors – things that push our buttons

Stress reactions – how we deal with and react to the stress

Physical and emotional

Types of conflict

approach-avoidance

approach-approach

avoidance-avoidance

Walter cannons findings

Sympathetic nervous system responds to the body’s alarm to stress

Prepares the body for the flight or fight response

Hans Selye

General adaptation syndrome

Phases

Alarm reaction

Resistance and

Exhaustion

Problem focused coping – attempting to reduce stress directly

Involves changing the stressor or the way one interacts with the stress

Emotional focused coping – reducing the stress

Avoiding or ignoring stress

Attending to emotional needs related to stress through talking with a friend, venting, crying