Notes that helped me to achieve a distinction star. Created using the mark scheme, the Pearson 2017 Applied psychology book and extra notes made in class.
B1 physiological responses to stress+stress and ill health
Causes of stress:
● Life events
● Daily hassles
● The workplace
● Personality
Physiological responses to stress:
● Stress and ill health
, Life events
● Significant and relatively infrequent experiences or events in people's lives that cause stress.
● We experience them as stressful because we have to make a significant psychological adjustment to cope with the
changed situation
● Examples: getting married or divorced, someone close to us dying, a change in financial situation (for better or
worse), a new addition to the family.
Life events and illness:
● Life events can cause make us ill as they cause more daily hassles which add up
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