1. Effects of Stress

2. Learning Goals
Objectives
Essential Question
Define stressor and stress reaction, and explain the focus of health psychology
Explain the physical reaction to stressors
List the three types of stressors, and categorize examples of stressors correctly.
What is the difference between a person with a Type A personality and a person with a Type B personality?

3. Do Now
What aspects of your life cause you the most stress? What do you do when you feel overly stressed and need to relax?

5. Stress Stress Health psychology
Process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
Health psychology
Subfield of psychology that focuses on how stress affects well-being and health.
Answer the following questions on your Do Now
How are stress and illness related?
How do our perceptions of stress affect our health?
Can we control our reactions to stress?
What behaviors and attitudes help prevent health problems?

6. Stressful General Adaptation Syndrome Burnout
Hans Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three stages—alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
Burnout
Physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion brought on by persistent job-related stress.
Resulting in:
Depression
Decreased performance or productivity
Cynicism

7. Personality Types Type A:
Term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.
Type B:
Term for easygoing, relaxed people