biological psychology stress 2.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? PsychologyStressASAll boards Created by: lauraCreated on: 02-04-11 17:39 What is stress? Selye looked at the body's response to stressful stimuli/stressors. he found that different stressors all produced the same pattern of physiological responses... this is called the stress response. any stimulus that produced this response was a stressor...this is a response based-definition of stress. when certian events or stimuli are definied as a stressor by their nature they are called stimulus-based stress eg. death of someone close to you. these ignore individual differences, people will react differently to 'stressors'. cox and mackey came up with the transactional model of stress which takes into account individual differences. it looks at the person's perception of them in the world around them the process is appraisal, primary and secondary appraisal when the persons perception of their ability to cope is lower than the perceived demands they get stressed. 1 of 1
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