PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Biopsychosocial Model, Health Psychology, Type A And Type B Personality Theory
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Health psychology is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Example: whether you see an upcoming test as stressful or not: secondary appraisal is an evaluation of your coping resources and options for dealing with the stress. Example: determining how stressful the exam appeared considering your ability to deal with the event: people"s appraisals of stressful events are highly subjective. Acute stressors are threatening events that have a relatively short duration and a clear endpoint: example: dealing with the challenge of a major exam. Chronic stressors are threatening events that have a relatively long duration and no clear time limit: example: persistent financial strains produced by large credit debts. There are four major types of stress: frustration, conflict, change, pressure. Conflict: conflict occurs when two or more incompatible motivations of behavioural impulses compete for expression, come in three types:
