PSYCH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Immunosuppression, Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Factors in environment causes person to feel threatened or challenged. Stress response: reaction to some kind of stressor (stressful event) Illness and the immune system in response to stress. Stress added to the aging of a person and presence of telomeres f(becomes shorter and lead to development of tumors and a range of diseases) : first study to demonstrate decreased immune function in response to grief. : demonstrated relation between daily life events and antibody levels. : stress of caring for someone with a chronic illness delays wound recovery. People who are stressed engage in behaviors that compromise immune function. Type b personality: individual demonstrates relativity low levels of competitiveness, urgency about time and hostility. Phony type b"s: people who appear to be type b"s on the surface, but underneath they are tense, hostile and troubled, hiding their feeling, sleep less, don"t eat as well, drugs and alcohol, adrenaline and cortisol.
