PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Relaxation Technique, Psychosomatic Medicine, Learned Helplessness
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Health psychology: the subfield of psychology concerned with the ways psychological factors influence the causes and treatment of physical illness and maintenance of health. Impact sleep has on our mental and physical health. Stressors: specific events or chronic pressure that place demands on a person or threaten the person"s well-being. When the demands on things exceed your expectations. Stress: the physical and psychological and response to internal or external stressors. Ex: getting a paper cut, failing a class. Rational; depends on a person on which event is stressful. Chronic stressors: sources of stress that occur continuously or repeated. Do not necessarily go away; people have to deal with all the time: ex: People who think they will fail, will fail. When you feel like you do not have any control, they will just accept it. Flight-or-flight response: an emotional and physiological research to an emergency that increases readiness for action.
