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Stress starts with appraisal, not with the event
The same exam is a threat to one student and a challenge to another, and the appraisal decides the physiology that follows: primary appraisal rates the stakes, secondary rates the resources. Selye's general adaptation syndrome then describes the body's arc under sustained load, alarm, resistance, exhaustion, which is where prolonged stress connects to physical health.
Coping splits by target: the problem or the emotion
Problem focused coping attacks the stressor, studying for the exam that causes the dread; emotion focused coping manages the feeling, reframing, exercising, seeking support. Neither is universally better: the scored judgement is matching strategy to controllability, problem focused where change is possible, emotion focused where it is not. Scenario questions hand you exactly that fork.
Positive psychology measures what goes right
Positive psychology studies wellbeing directly, gratitude, flow, signature strengths, resilience, rather than defining health as the absence of disorder. In this unit it balances the stress material: the same appraisal machinery that manufactures threat can be trained toward challenge, and interventions here are testable content, not decoration.
Disorder has a definition, and strangeness is not it
A pattern qualifies as disorder through dysfunction, it disrupts daily life, and distress, to the person or those around them, judged against cultural context. Diagnosis uses standard manuals, and the perspectives, biological, cognitive, behavioural, sociocultural, offer competing accounts of the same symptoms. The biopsychosocial view stacks them: predisposition, thought pattern and environment interacting rather than competing.
Treatments answer the explanation that names the problem
Cognitive behavioural therapy restructures the thoughts that maintain the behaviour; exposure extinguishes learned fear by preventing avoidance; humanistic therapy supplies the accepting relationship; biological treatment acts on the nervous system directly. The exam's favourite move is a symptom scenario asking which treatment follows from which explanation, so learn them as matched pairs.
What to photograph for Mental and Physical Health
Your stress models, category charts and treatment pairings. Related: Unit 4, photo to quiz and pricing.
Sources used on this page
- College Board, AP Psychology
- General adaptation syndrome
- Positive psychology
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Coping
- Active recall
- Spaced repetition
- Testing effect
- Forgetting curve
- Generation effect
- Judgment of learning
- Metacognition
- Desirable difficulty
- Distributed practice
- Formative assessment
- Flashcard
- Cloze test
- Multiple choice
- Test (assessment)
- Educational assessment
- Advanced Placement
- Curriculum
- Study skills
- Study guide
- Note-taking
- Overlearning
- Instructional scaffolding
- Item analysis
- Mastery learning
| Concept | The question it answers | The pairing to remember |
|---|---|---|
| Primary appraisal | Is this a threat? | Stakes before physiology |
| Secondary appraisal | Can I cope? | Resources decide the load |
| Problem focused coping | Can the stressor change? | Use when controllable |
| Emotion focused coping | Must I live with it? | Use when uncontrollable |
| Disorder definition | When is it clinical? | Dysfunction plus distress |
| CBT and exposure | What maintains it? | Thoughts and avoidance |
What does AP Psychology Unit 5 cover?
Health psychology: stress and appraisal, coping, positive psychology, the definition and major categories of psychological disorders, and treatment approaches.
What is the difference between primary and secondary appraisal?
Primary appraisal rates whether an event threatens you; secondary appraisal rates whether your resources can meet it. Together they set the stress response.
When is behaviour a disorder?
When the pattern involves dysfunction in daily life and distress, judged in cultural context, not merely when it is unusual.
How do I choose between coping strategies on the exam?
Match to controllability: problem focused coping where the stressor can change, emotion focused coping where it cannot.
How do treatments map to perspectives?
Each treatment answers its explanation: CBT to cognitive accounts, exposure to learning accounts, biological treatment to nervous system accounts.
Can I build questions from my own Unit 5 notes?
Yes. Point the camera at the pages or send the PDF, and the questions stay within that material instead of ranging across the term.
Last updated: 2026-08-15