PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Psy, Stressor, Cortisol

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 245
• Professor: lauretano

Document Summary

Psychological approaches: behavioral medicine, knowledge derived from behavioral science is applied to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical problems. Interdisciplinary: health psychology, subfield of behavioral medicine, not interdisciplinary, study psychological factors that are important to promotion and maintenance of health; analyze and recommend improvements in health- care systems and health policy formation within the discipline of psychology. Dsm-iv and physical disorders: coded on axis iii, psychological factors can affect medical conditions. What will be covered in this section of the course. Cardiovascular disease: hypertension, coronary heart disease (chd) Stress physiological response on an individual. Stressor- event that evokes the stress response. Variability- stress responses vary from person to person. Hans selye stress response & the general adaptation syndrome (hans discovered stress) Some stressors experienced by college students (based on crandall, preisler, & aussprung, Arguments with friends trying to decide on a major. Hpa axis activation: hypothalamus (crf) pituitary (acth) adrenal (cortisol, limbic system activation, hippocampus.