Week 9 - Appraisal

Question 1

What is appraisal?

Answer 1

• An event (something happens or is going to happen)

Question 2

Why is an event perceived and appraised?

Answer 2

for scope and meaning

Question 3

What is the purpose of appraisal? (3)

Answer 3

1. Involves a decision about how threatening the event is
2. Affects the comping strategies used
3. Then the coping strategies aim to reduce the experience of stress (sometimes called anxiety), or return the person to homeostasis

Question 4

What is the different between primary and secondary appraisal? (3)

Answer 4

1. Primary - initial appraisal
2. Secondary
   - Evaluate available resources
   - Overcome, eliminate, or reduce stressors

Question 5

What is engagement? (2)

Answer 5

• reappraisal of the stressor
• Examination of the success of the coping strategy

ie. oh this person might just be having a bad day

Question 6

What influences appraisal? (6,8)

Answer 6

1. Level of Education (develop skills that will help you understand problems)
2. Past life experiences
   - discrimination, gender constraints, trauma
3. Current coping style
4. Values and expectations
5. Beliefs
   - culture influences the experience of shame about failing
6. Self-efficacy

Question 7

What is self-efficacy?

Answer 7

the extent to which a person feels they can successfully solve their own problems

Question 8

Appraisals associated with basic emotions chart*

Answer 8

Question 9

What does coping with challenging situations require?

Answer 9

• emotional regulation or the conscious ability of a person to increase or decrease the magnitude or duration of an emotional response

Question 10

What is situational selection?

Answer 10

choosing an environment that promotes positive emotions

Question 11

What is Situational modification?

Answer 11

• using behaviour to alter emotional impact

Question 12

What is attentional deployment?

Answer 12

• Distracting one self (gym, tv, etc)

Question 13

What is cognitive change?

Answer 13

Changing your thoughts

Question 14

What is response modulation?

Answer 14

• Altering the experience of an emotion
  ie. reinterpreting your emotions (sad= tired)

Question 15

What is problem-focused coping? (2)

Answer 15

• Steps people take to deal directly with and act on the sources of stress
• Eliminate or reduce the underlying cause of the stressor

Question 16

What is emotional-focused coping?

Answer 16

actions are meant to control the stress response (crying, laughing, etc.)

Question 17

What is meaning-focused coping?

Answer 17

• Look for ways to modify a response through talking or reflecting

Question 18

What is coping?

Answer 18

• Actions taken to minimize or reduce the stressor to get back to a state of homeostasis, wellbeing, and health

Question 19

Appraisal process r/t how a person experiences stress and copes diagram

Answer 19