1. Motivation, Emotion, and Stress
Unit 8
Motivation, Emotion, and Stress

2. Unit 8
Day 1 – The Basis of Motivation (Module 37) Day 2 – Hunger and Sex (Modules 38 & 39) Day 3 – The Need to Belong (Module 40) and Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz Day 4 – Theories of Emotion and Detection (Modules 41 & 42) Day 5 – Stress and Unit 8 Review (Modules 43 & 44) Day 6 – CUA 8!

3. Module 43: Stress and Health

4. Stress: Some Basic Concepts
How we perceive and respond to events (called stressors) that we appraise as threatening or challenging
How we appraise stress:

5. Stress: Some Basic Concepts
How we perceive and respond to events (called stressors) that we appraise as threatening or challenging
How we appraise stress:

6. Stress: Some Basic Concepts
How we perceive and respond to events (called stressors) that we appraise as threatening or challenging
How we appraise stress:

7. Stress: Some Basic Concepts
How we perceive and respond to events (called stressors) that we appraise as threatening or challenging
How we appraise stress:

8. Stress: Some Basic Concepts
How we perceive and respond to events (called stressors) that we appraise as threatening or challenging
How we appraise stress:

9. Stress: Some Basic Concepts
How we perceive and respond to events (called stressors) that we appraise as threatening or challenging
How we appraise stress:

10. Stressors: Things that Push Our Buttons
Catastrophes: unpredictable, large scale events; nearly everyone interprets these are threatening
Significant Life Changes: often predictable personal events (death of a parent, losing a job); even some happy events (getting married; moving to college) can be highly stressful
Most significantly, highest stress is experienced by young adults. Why?
Daily Hassles: Most people shrug these off; prolonged exposure, however, can be much worse than either of the above

11. Responding to Stress
Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) – three phases
Alarm: Body mobilizes resources to combat the stressor
Resistance: Body attempts to cope with stress; resistance is high
Exhaustion: Eventually, body resources are depleted and resistance to stress lowers substantially
Tend-and-befriend
Under stress, people – especially women – usually tend (help others) and befriend to seek support from others

12. Responding to Stress