Ap Psychology Chapter 14 Summary

In chapter 13 the key points of focus are stress, health and coping. As defined by the cognitive appraisal model, stress is a negative emotional state that is in occurrence to events that are seen as appraised as taxing or exceeding one's resources. Psychologists that study stress and other psychological factors that influence health, illness and treatment are health psychologist. Events or situations that produce stress are known as stressors. Significant sources of stress include daily hassles, work stress and burnout. Social factors that include crime and racism can create chronic stress, Accultural stress is a result when people encounter different cultural values. Health can be affected indirectly by stress which influence health-related behaviors, and directly influence the body’s functioning. Walter Cannon is who identified the endocrine pathway that is used with the flight-or-fight …show more content…
Feeling of control have both psychological and psychical benefits. How people explain negative events usually determines whether they will persist or give up after failure. People that have a optimistic explanatory style use external, unstable and specific explanations for negative events. However, people with a pessimistic explanatory style use internal, stable, and global explanations for negative events. The development of some chronic diseases are related to chronic negative emotions. The Type A behavior pattern is able to predict the development of heart disease. Being isolated socially contributes to poor health. Social support improves the ability to be able to deal with stressors by modifying the appraisal of the stressor, decreasing the psychical reaction to a stressor and making people less likely to experience negative emotions. Women are more likely than men to to be the providers of social support and tend to be more vulnerable to the stress contagion