PSYC 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Hans Selye, Tim Hortons, Walter Bradford Cannon
23 Apr 2016
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The biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological psychological and sociocultural factors. Contagious diseases caused by infectious agents such as smallpox, typhoid fever, diphtheria, yellow fever, malaria, cholera, tuberculosis, and polio. Chronic diseases develop gradually, such as heart disease, cancer, and stroke. 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 is any circumstance that threaten, or are perceived to threaten one"s well-being and that thereby tax ones coping abilities. According to anisman an individuals response to a stressor is a function of a number of factors, including the type of stressor and it"s controllability, biological factors such as age and gender and the individuals previous experience with stress. Anita delongis has shown that routine hassles may have significant harmful effects on mental and physical health.
