PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Explanatory Style, Sedentary Lifestyle

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Professor Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Dramatic changes in the causes of death in u. s. over the past century have led to a focus on how emotional reactions, social influences, and overt behaviors affect our health. In 1900, major causes of death were influenza, pneumonia, and tuberculosis. By about 1950, changes in sanitation and mass vaccinations enabled americans to avoid or at least to recover from many of these diseases. Today three leading causes of death are heart disease, cancer, and cerebrovascular disease. Health psychology subfield of psychology concerned with how psychological and social variables affect health and illness. Health psychologists develop programs to reduce levels of risk factors related to diseases. Stress nonspecific response of body to demands to adjust to wide range of changes. Stressors environmental events that cause an organism to adjust and display this nonspecific stress response. Resilience is a person"s ability to bounce back or rebound psychologically after being confronted by stress.