PSYC 2600H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Allostatic Load, Hans Selye, Biopsychosocial Model

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600H
• Professor: Jeff Adams

Document Summary

Biomedical model - illness is caused by disruptions in physiological process, which results from injury, biochemical imbalance and or infection. Biopsychosocial model - health and illness caused by interplay between biology, psychology and sociology. Journals - annals of behavioural medicine, health psychology *** Theory: tentative explanation of why and under what circumstances certain things occur. Correlational : these is a relationship between 2 variables. Quasi - looks like an experiment but there is not randomization (ex. Are people who smoked last year at greater risk for lung disease than those who did not?) 2 main components to stress: physical - direct boldly challenge (tense, sweating, etc. , psychologicals - how persp perceived the stress. Stressor - events or circumstances a person perceives as therarhing or harmful. Strain - the psychological and physiological response to a stressor (headache, heart beat picking up, etc. ) Transactions - the continuous interplay and adjustments of the person and environment.