PSYC 1002 Study Guide - Final Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Jargon, Statistical Significance
30 Mar 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Psych feb 4th, 2015: stress, coping, and health. The biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. The traditional view of physical illness purely as a biological phenomenon is no longer in play. The growing recognition that psychological factors influence physical health eventually led to the emergence of a new specialty in psychology . Health psychology is concerned with hoe psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Stress: any circumstance that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well-being and that thereby tax one"s coping abilities. Everyday events; waiting in line, car trouble, shopping, losing your phone, commuting. Lazarus: developed a scale to measure everyday hassles. Delongis: routine hassles may have significant harmful effects on mental and physical health. This is because it is cumulative and the stress builds up.
