During their third year at college tammy and timothy both lost their part-time jobs in the library due to funding cutbacks. tammy was mildly disturbed. she shrugged her shoulders and said she'd soon get another job. timothy was distraught and believed he might have to quit college. their different reactions to the same stressful event emphasizes the importance of:

Their different reactions to the same stressful event emphasizes the importance of "their respective cognitive appraisals of the event."

A cognitive appraisal is an appraisal of a passionate circumstance wherein a man assesses how the occasion will influence them, translates the different parts of the occasion, and lands at a reaction in light of that elucidation. Cognitive appraisals as a rule happen in circumstances where there is no physical incitement or clear pieces of information with reference to how the circumstance ought to be translated. 

Vanessa had a dream to be a ballerina. with her father's she had that opportunity.