PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cortisol, Sympathetic Nervous System, Stressor
21 Jan 2016
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Psyc- health, stress and coping. Biomedical model: absence of disease and illness, micro level, symptoms, functioning difficulties. Biopsychosocial model: considers health and illness, biological, social, and psychological factors all important. Physical health, disability, genetic vulnerabilities, Beliefs, attitudes, self- esteem, coping skills, social skills. Health psychology: stay healthy, become ill, respond when ill. Intervetions: stay healthy, recover healthy. Stressors: extreme (overwhelmed or overloaded, produce opposing tendencies (approach- avoid, perceived as uncontrollable, sources: internal and external. Sources of stress: major life events (holmes & rahe, 1967) Identified both positive and negative events that are stressors: stress- illness relationship. Each event should be considered if it has taken place in the last 12 months. Add values to the right of each item to obtain the total score. Your susceptibility to illness and mental health problems: Model of the stress response. Psychological appraisal lazarus and folkman: primary appraisal, harm, threat, challenge, secondary appraisal. What makes events stressful: negativity, uncontrollability/unpredictability, ambiguity, overload.
