This essay aims at delineating Dr. Mok case, and could be divided into four sections. Firstly, appraisal theory of stress and multi-store model would be compared and contrasted regarding the case of guest speaker. Secondly, strengths and weaknesses of the two psychological theories on illustrating Dr. Mok would be explained. Besides, personal life experience and professional practice in applying psychological theories would be reflected. Both the model of memory storage and the appraisal theory of stress have fostered the growth of Dr. Mok, helping this stroke patient to recover. Atkinson and Shiffrin model of memory storage, which is proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin in 1968, shows that memory has three stores. Sensory register,
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Mok. In rehabilitation period, Dr. Mok faced different potential stressors, such as finishing her degree in university, taking care of her family, dealing with her job. She needed to evaluate whether the stimulus event is stress or not according to the appraisal theory before taking further action. Taking the immediate impact brought by stroke as an example, the right part of upper extremity of Dr. Mok is immobile. Facing this stimulus event, she would undergo primary and secondary appraisal to examine whether the immobility of the body is a stressful event for her. The answer would be yes since she could not use her right hand for writing, playing table tennis, for example. After treating the event as stress, she tried to change her behavior to adapt to the impact brought by stroke. For example, instead of using both of her hands to remove husks of peanuts, Dr. Mok revealed that she has to use mouth and her left hand to remove husks of peanuts to accommodate with the
Mok. In rehabilitation period, Dr. Mok faced different potential stressors, such as finishing her degree in university, taking care of her family, dealing with her job. She needed to evaluate whether the stimulus event is stress or not according to the appraisal theory before taking further action. Taking the immediate impact brought by stroke as an example, the right part of upper extremity of Dr. Mok is immobile. Facing this stimulus event, she would undergo primary and secondary appraisal to examine whether the immobility of the body is a stressful event for her. The answer would be yes since she could not use her right hand for writing, playing table tennis, for example. After treating the event as stress, she tried to change her behavior to adapt to the impact brought by stroke. For example, instead of using both of her hands to remove husks of peanuts, Dr. Mok revealed that she has to use mouth and her left hand to remove husks of peanuts to accommodate with the