Sociology 2233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stress (Biology), Parasympathetic Nervous System, Hans Selye
2 Jan 2020
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Health: health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social-wellbeing. Health psychology: an interdisciplinary subspecialty of psychology dedicated to promoting and maintaining health and preventing and treating illness, there are three segments of health psychology, stress and coping, health behaviours, issues in health care. Responses to stress: fight or flight response cannon"s theory of stress, explains the physiological responses in our body, the sympathetic nervous systems (sns) prepares the body for action. 2) sns decreases or even turns off the digestive system and the reproductive system. The parasympathetic nervous system (pns) helps the body recover from a stressor. Lecture notes/ info for midterm: secondary appraisals: one determines how to deal and cope with the stressors factors contributing to appraisal are: a) duration; b) negative or. Describes the individual effort made to manage distressing problems and emotions that affect the physical and psychological outcomes of stress. The emotional, information, or instrumental assistance from others.
