PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Immunology, Maximum Capacity, Growth Factor

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

Document Summary

Chapter 12: emotions, stress, and health: stress and illness, introduction. In the 1900s, most illness involved infectious disease such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and diarrhea. E. g. : heart disease, cancer, and stroke are all preventable. In terms of the 10 leading causes of disease, half of the mortality rate of these diseases were due to behaviour. We are behaving our way to an early death. Is the scientific field where psychology and medicine are combined. This is the psychological component of behavioural medicine. Researchers scientifically study any factors associated with health and illness. E. g. : how to prevent illness, how to cope with illness, etc. We use our knowledge of psychology to get healthier. The connection between mind and body is huge: stress and stressors. Stress is the negative emotions we experience when we are faced with events that we perceive are either challenging or taxing to our resources and beyond our ability and manage with them to cope.