Stress and Health — psychology STD 12 Arts — Question
Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ArtspsychologyStress and Health3 Marks
Question
Explain behavioral and cognitive reactions.
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Answer
How a person reacts to mood swings depends on the intensity of the mood.
Mild mood drives a person to some behavior.
E.g. eating, behaving sexually, being aggressive etc.
Mild mood motivates the person to achieve the goal and improves the work.
Mild mood drives a person to some behavior.
E.g. eating, behaving sexually, being aggressive etc.
Mild mood motivates the person to achieve the goal and improves the work.
When the mood lasts for a long time, it becomes intense and the person behaves erratically, resulting in impatience, lethargy or irritability in the person.
No problem arises if the person can control the intense mood. Such effects occur only occasionally.
Behavior is hampered by intense stress, sometimes it is suppressed, and sometimes the person feels helpless and becomes completely inactive.
In the cognitive reactions of mood, when a person interprets mood as a barrier to his self-esteem and self, he becomes agitated and has the opposite effect on his cognitive functions.
The person's attention is focused on the threatening situation and the person's ability to deal with it decreases.
A person's creative thinking, recollection and decision-making power are affected by the negative effect.
E.g. the pilot of a ship caught in a storm cannot make quick decisions.
In the same way, if a candidate who has gone for a job interview gets scared, he will be confused in giving answers even though he is prepared and will make mistakes that are considered very common.
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