PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Aerobic Exercise, Natural Killer Cell, Dementia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Christine Boisvert

Document Summary

Emotions as well as personality, attitudes, behaviors, and responses to stress, can have an impact on our overall health. Health psychology studies these impacts, as part of the broader field of behavioral medicine. Topics of study in health psychology include: the phases of stress response and adaption, how stress and health are affected by. Many people report being affected by stress . Some terms psychologists use to talk about stress: a stressor is: threatening, challenging, or somehow overwhelming. It is not a thing or an event, but it refers to the process of appraising and responding to events which we consider threatening or challenging. *extreme, chronic physical threats or challenges (such as noise or starvation. A brief experience of stress can be beneficial: improving immune system response, motivating action, focus priorities, feeling engaged, energized, and satisfied, providing challenges that encourage growth, knowledge, and self- esteem.