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Meeting Life Challenges

CBSE · Class 12 · Psychology

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Key Topics to Revise

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Nature, Types and Sources of Stress

  • Stress is a dynamic mental/cognitive state involving disruption in homeostasis that requires resolution
  • Stress is not inherently bad - 'Eustress' is positive stress that enhances performance, while 'Distress' causes harm
  • Stress involves transaction between individual and environment, not just a stimulus or response
2

Effects of Stress on Psychological Functioning and Health

  • Four major effects: Emotional, Physiological, Cognitive, and Behavioral
  • Emotional effects: mood swings, anxiety, depression, erratic behavior
  • Physiological effects: increased adrenaline/cortisol, changes in heart rate, blood pressure, metabolism
3

General Adaptation Syndrome and Immune System

  • Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) has three stages:
  • 1. Alarm Reaction: activation of adrenal-pituitary-cortex system, fight-or-flight response
  • 2. Resistance: parasympathetic system manages resources, organism copes with threat
4

Coping with Stress

  • Coping is dynamic, situation-specific reaction to stress involving concrete responses to resolve problems
  • Three coping strategies by Endler and Parker:
  • 1. Task-oriented: obtaining information, deciding priorities, direct action

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