Because there are individual differences in what is considered stressful, psychologists distinguish between stressors (the object, situation or person that causes a state of stress) and the stress-response (the physiological, emotional and behavioural effects).

Animations for Teaching Psychology This weeks resource is a series of flash animations from South Western State University Georgia. Some of them are useful for A Level Psychology. I particularly enjoyed the comparison of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.