Outline This paper examines the three psychological concepts of stress, punishment, and belief as discussed in the text. Each of the psychological concepts will be examined separately by way of their definitions, uses, and problems and then followed by the individual experiences about each of the concepts. Stress Stress appears to be a simple concept and most of us use the word almost daily, but what it means is a kind of psychological arousal that brings about intense anxiety, anger, and in extreme cases trauma also. It is certainly not a myth and burdens the mind as much as any workload. The first popular concept of stress was explained in 1950 by Hans Selye who theorized that “all individuals respond to all types of threatening situations in the same manner,” (Selye, 1956), which he called the General Adaption Syndrome (GAS). Walter Cannon researched in the early twentieth century and found that stress is a “fight or flight response of the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) to perceived threats to physical or emotional security” (Cannon, 1929). In understanding the given psychology of arousal as a consequence of threats that are perceived, there is a need to know about the techniques of relaxation that reduce such arousal. A person who suddenly loses his job may react with anger instead of adopting a beneficial technique of solving the problem. The anger could be self-induced or may have just come unconsciously, but as long as the anger is present there is bound to be psychological arousal and the person will suffer from a Major Depressive Episode that may lead to Anxiety Disorder. Under such circumstances, a person is said to be under severe stress. At the same time, it can also be concluded that the person who is undergoing stress has not been able to adapt to the changed circumstances healthily. In the environment that we live in, stress has come to become a condition that can greatly damage health and reduce happiness even against the will of people. Punishment B. F. Skinner had devised the concept of positive and negative concepts of punishments whereby something was added or removed to make people adopt the desired behaviors (Cottrell, 2006). Positive punishment entails reducing the negative behavior which prevents or stops a person from doing things which he is not supposed to do. A typical example in this regard is the invisible fence that prevents a dog from straying away from its boundaries. A sensor in its collar plays a high-frequency sound after detecting the electric current from the buried wire whenever it attempts to cross the given boundary, and the dog learns to adapt to its surroundings. If the dog still does not adapt to the instructions it is given negative punishment that could be more disturbing and painful in making it adopt the desired behavior. Hence from the psychological perspective punishment refers to actions that aim at reducing the given behavior. Fundamentally there is nothing such as intrinsic punishment and punishment is applied with the sole aim of reducing the undesired behaviors. When motivating techniques fail to bring desired results, an alternative is to use punishment to make people realize what is right for them or what they ought to