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Assignment 1, Chapter 3

This document discusses various sources of stress and their effects. It identifies three main sources of stress: life events, hassles of daily life, and traumatic events. Life events like relationships changes or moves can disrupt routines. Daily hassles from noise, traffic or chores accumulate over time. Traumatic events such as accidents or disasters can cause long-term anxiety symptoms. The document also examines cognitive effects of prolonged stress like poor concentration and decision making.

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Assignment 1, Chapter 3

This document discusses various sources of stress and their effects. It identifies three main sources of stress: life events, hassles of daily life, and traumatic events. Life events like relationships changes or moves can disrupt routines. Daily hassles from noise, traffic or chores accumulate over time. Traumatic events such as accidents or disasters can cause long-term anxiety symptoms. The document also examines cognitive effects of prolonged stress like poor concentration and decision making.

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Palak Parwani

XII D
Assignment 1
1. The reaction to external stressors is called Strain.
2. Primary Appraisal refers to the perception of a new or changing
environment as positive, neutral or negative in its consequences.
3. My parents want me to score out of marks in the upcoming
examination. Identify the type of psychological stress. Challenge
Appraisal
4. The state of physical, emotional and psychological exhaustion is
known as Burnout
5. Pooja is studying in class 10. A day prior of the Term I
examination, she went to watch movie in a theater with her
friends. Identify the coping strategy she is using to cope up with
stress. Avoidance Oriented Strategy
6. Differentiate between Eustress & Distress. (2 M)
A. Eustress is a term used to describe the level of stress that is good
for you and is one of a person’s best assets for achieving peak
performance and managing minor crisis.
Whereas distress is the manifestation of stress that causes our
body’s wear and tear.

7. Elucidate the Cognitive effects of stress. (2 M)


A. If stress continues one may suffer from a mental overload. This
suffering from a high level stress can cause individuals to lose
their ability to make sound decisions. Faulty decisions made at
various levels in life may lead to this. Cognitive effects of stress
are poor concentration and reduced short term memory.
8. Discuss the limitations of Selye’s GAS model.
A. Selye’s model has been criticized for assigning a very limited role
to psychological factors in stress. Psychological appraisal of events
is very important in the determination of stress. How people
respond to stress is substanically influenced by their perceptions,
personalities and biological constitutions.

9. Discuss the different sources of stress. (3M)

A. A wide range of events and conditions can generate stress.


Among the most important of these are major stressful life events
such as death of a loved one or personal injury, the annoying
frequent hassles of everyday life and traumatic events that affect our
lives.

Life Events

Changes, both big and small, sudden and gradual affect our life from
the moment we are born. We learn to cope with small, everyday
changes but major life events can be stressful, because they disturb
our routine and cause upheaval. If several of these life events that
are planned (e.g. moving into a new house) or unpredicted (e.g.
break-up of a long-term relationship) occur within a short period of
time, we find it difficult to cope with them and will be more prone to
the symptoms of stress.

Hassles
These are the personal stresses we endure as individuals, due to the
happenings in our daily life, such as noisy surroundings, commuting,
quarrelsome neighbours, electricity and water shortage, traffic
snarls, and so on. Attending to various emergencies are daily hassles
experienced by a housewife. There are some jobs in which daily
hassles are very frequent. These daily hassles may sometimes have
devastating consequences for the individual who is often the one
coping alone with them as others may not even be aware of them as
outsiders. The more stress people report as a result of daily hassles,
the poorer is their psychological well-being.

Traumatic Events

These include being involved in a variety of extreme events such as a


fire, train or road accident, robbery, earthquake, tsunami, etc. The
effects of these events may occur after some lapse of time and
sometimes persist as symptoms of anxiety, flashbacks, dreams and
intrusive thoughts, etc. Severe trauma can also strain relationships.
Professional help will be needed to cope with them especially if they
persist for many months after the event is over.

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