PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Hiv, Endocrine System, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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The biopsychosocial model: holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. 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. Stress: any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well being and that thereby tax one"s coping abilities. Primary appraisal: is an initial evaluation of whether an event is (1) irrelevant to you, (2) relevant but not threatening, or (3) stressful. Secondary appraisal: which is an evaluation of your coping resources and options of dealing with the stress. 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. Frustration: occurs in any situation in which the pursuit of some goal is thwarted.
