PSYC 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Prefrontal Cortex, Catecholamine
11 Nov 2018
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Health: state of physical, mental, and social well-being; not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Health psychology: how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health, and causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Lazurus & folkman: stress is a relationship between a person & the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding resources and endangering wellbeing". Stress: subjective feeling produced by events perceived as uncontrollable and threatening. Primary appraisal: initial evaluation of whether an event is irrelevant, relevant but not threatening, or stressful. (whether stress is present) Secondary appraisal: evaluation of coping resources/options for dealing with stress. Stressors: events that lead to stress and have several common attributes. Produce a state of feeling overwhelmed or overloaded; perceived as uncontrollable. Acute stressors are threatening events that have a relatively short duration and a clear endpoint. Chronic stressors are threatening events that have a relatively long duration and no readily apparent time limit.
