PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Autonomic Nervous System, Walter Bradford Cannon, Sympathetic Nervous System
13 Jul 2017
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Bio-psychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Health psychology concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Stress any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well being and that thereby tax one"s coping abilities. Stress as an everyday event: major disasters (hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, etc. , waiting in lines, having car trouble, shopping for gifts, losing things, etc, paying bills, being financially stable, etc. Cognitive appraisal the personal interpretation of a situation; how an individual views a situation: events that are stressful for one person may be routine for another. Primary appraisal an initial evaluation of whether an event is (1) irrelevant to you, (2) relevant but not threatening, or (3) stressful: would determine whether you saw an upcoming exam as stressful.
