1). The condition in which person-environment transactions lead to a perceived discrepancy between the physical or psychological demands of a situation, and the resources of the individual's biopxychosocial systems."

1). Events percieved to be as stressful.

1). Developed by Hans Selye

2). A profile of how organisms respond to stress.

3). Characterized by 3 phases:

1. A nonspecific mobilization phase, which permotes sympthetic nervous system activity.
2. A resistance phase, during which organism makes the efforts to cope with the threat.
3. An exhaustion phase, which occurs if the organism fails to overcome the threat and depletes its physiological resources.

1) The perception of a new changing environment as benefiticial, neutral, or negative in its consequences; believed to be a first step in stress and coping.

2). Whether the demand threatens our physical or psychological well-being. Three possible judgements may come from:

• Irrelevant
• Good, or "Benign-Positive"
• Stressful: These Judgements lead to further judgement...

1). The assessment of one's coping abilities and resources and the judgement as to whether they will be sufficient to meet harm, threat or challange of a new or changing event.

2). Ongoing assesment of the resources we have available for coping.

3). Sometimes our secoondary apprasials of limited resources may affect our primary apprasials of threat or loss-harm, whereas that may not have otherwise happened.

1). This is both intellectual and personality-based in nature.

1). The degree of change that occurs in autonomic, neuroendocrine, and/or immune responses as a result of stress.

1). A stressful experience that is usual but continually stressful aspect of life.

1). A response to a threat in which the body is rapidly aroused and motivated via the sympathetic nervous system and the endocrine system to attack or flee a threatening stimulus.

2). Described by Walter Cannon - 1932.