ABSTRACT
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
• Interrelate the terms stress and stressor
Describe Freud’s definition of anxiety and discuss his views of anxiety causation from a psychoanalytic perspective
Define displacement, repression, denial, and rationalization
Identify the primary distinction between psychoanalytic and learning perspectives of stress
Define modeling and discuss it in relationship to stress from a social learning perspective
Elaborate upon value dissonance and social change as they relate to stress from a sociological/environmental perspective
Discuss how personality may interact with stress
Contrast trait and state anxiety
Distinguish among social, physical, chemical, bacterial, and climatic stressors
