PSY 1102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Sympathetic Nervous System, Projective Test

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Health psychology: a sub eld of psychology that provides psychology"s contribution to behavioural medicine. Stress: a process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as challenging or threatening. Stress reaction: emotional or physical responses to stress. Stressors: catastrophes, signi cant life changes, daily hassles. Appraisal: how we respond initially to an event (ex. we can see it as a challenge on a threat) In 1929 he con rmed that the stress response is part of a uni ed mind-body system. Stress hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine are released from the adrenal glands. When altered by any number of pathways, the sympathetic nervous system increases heart rate and respiration, diverts blood from digestion to the skeletal muscles, dulls feelings of pain, releases sugar and fat from body stores. From the cerebral cortex, the outer part of the adrenal glands secret glucocorticoid stress hormones such as cortisol.