PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corticosteroid, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Cortisol

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: William Huggon

Document Summary

Is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Physical illness is cause by a complex interaction of biological, psychosocial, and socio cultural factors. Approx 4 of 5 canadians have at least one modifiable risk factor for chronic disease. Stress is the constellation of cognitive, emotional, physiological, and behavioral reactions the organism experiences as it interacts with perceived threats and challenges (stressors) Acute stress: threatening events that have a relatively short duration and a clear end point. Chronic stress: threatening events that have a relatively long duration and no readily apparent time limit. In more cases, the term stress i thought of a negative (distress) But it can be thought of as positive (eustress: stress as a stimulus. Any circumstance that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well-being and that thereby tax one"s coping abilities. But many everyday events: stress as a process.