PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hans Selye, Walter Bradford Cannon, Autonomic Nervous System
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There are 2 approaches to health and illness. Biomedical model predominant view in medicine, focuses on illness rather than health. Bio psychosocial model: holds that both health and wellness are determined by a combination of biological, psychological, and social factor. Includes good and bad changes: changes routines, expectations, have to adapt. The physiological and psychological response to a connection that threatens or challenges the individual and requires some form of adaptation or adjustment. Stress doesn"t have to be life threatening, can be daily challenges. Walter cannon: danger, fight or flight response, autonomic nervous system. Tend-and-befriend: ensure safety or offspring, social support. Over time maladative: unreasonable, unhealthy, doesn"t explain repsonses to all stressors. ), resist: exhaustion: stressor is prolonged, resources (hormones) depleted, exhaustion. General adaption syndrome (hans selye: problem: causes harm. High continuous stress= disease: contemporary critcisms: Stress has psycholcogical components (ie perception and evaltion of the event) Pyscholgocial-learned, depend on perceptions, interpretations: type of stressors.
