Week 14 · Readings & resources

Week 14 — Readings & Resources

Introduction to Psychology Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 14 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 60–73 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more depth, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (18–21 min total)

① Why does the same event stress one person and not another?

Chapter 14, Section “Read the event: primary and secondary appraisal” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Primary and secondary appraisal” · Remember: primary appraisal asks whether an event is a threat, and secondary appraisal asks whether you can cope with it.

Cognitive Appraisal of Stress – Acute Stress Management for Healthcare Trainees Part 3 — medical-education video series — a short video from a stress-management series for healthcare trainees on when a stressor is read as a challenge that energizes you and when it is read as a threat that overwhelms you; use it while working through the Week-14 module overview. (video, 3 min) (captions: creator)
I'm So Stressed Out! Fact Sheet — National Institute of Mental Health — a plain-language federal page on what stress is, how it differs from anxiety, everyday ways to cope, and when and where to reach out for help. (reading, 5–8 min)
Emotion, Stress, and Health: Crash Course Psychology #26 — CrashCourse — a fast tour of how emotions connect to stress and how stress connects to health; keep the chapter's definitions where the wording differs. (video, 10 min) (captions: creator)

② What does stress do to the body, in seconds and over months?

Chapter 14, Section “Follow stress over months: the general adaptation syndrome” · Session 1, Segment 4, “The general adaptation syndrome” · Remember: Selye's three stages always run in the same order, alarm, then resistance, then exhaustion.

Fight or Flight Response — Bozeman Science — a science teacher walks through how the adrenal glands and the sympathetic nervous system change the body in the first moments of danger. This builds on Week 3's work with the sympathetic nervous system. (video, 6 min) (captions: creator)
General Adaptation Syndrome (Intro Psych Tutorial #209) — PsychExamReview — a tutorial on Selye's three stages and the long-stress research behind them. (video, 7 min) (captions: creator)
Cortisol Test — MedlinePlus — a federal health page on a medical test; read the opening section only, on cortisol as a hormone made by the adrenal glands that helps the body respond to stress, and on the pituitary hormone that tells those glands how much cortisol to make, two of the stops on the chapter's HPA axis. Skip the sections on testing and on medical conditions. (reading, 3–5 min)
Stress, Personality, & Heart Disease (Intro Psych Tutorial #212) — PsychExamReview — a tutorial on the Type A and Type B patterns and why researchers came to focus on hostility. (video, 6 min) (captions: creator)

③ How do you cope, and which habits does the evidence support?

Chapter 14, Section “Choose a coping style: problem-focused and emotion-focused” · Session 2, Segment 6, “Problem-focused and emotion-focused coping” · Remember: problem-focused coping changes the stressor, and emotion-focused coping manages the feelings it brings.

Problem Focused Coping — palliative-care education series — a short talk from a palliative-care education program on what tackling a stressor directly looks like in practice; sort each example you hear as problem-focused or emotion-focused. (video, 5 min) (captions: automatic)
Managing Stress — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a federal page of everyday stress-management steps, from sleep and exercise to staying connected with other people. (reading, 5–8 min)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

Relaxation Techniques: What You Need To Know — National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health — a federal health agency's reference on relaxation practices; read the opening sections on what relaxation techniques are and the types, then skip to any condition you are curious about. (reading, 10–15 min)

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