PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Sympathetic Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System, United States Academic Decathlon

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Models of the personality-illness connection: stress: subjective feeling produced by events that are uncontrollable or threatening, response to personal demands in some situations. It can influence coping, as in the interactional model. It can influence how the person appraises or interprets the events. Illness: presence of an objectively measureable abnormal physiological process, such as fever, high blood pressure. Stress response: general adaptation syndrome (gas): (seyle, alarm stage: fight or flight response of the sympathetic nervous system and the associated peripheral nervous system reactions. Major life events: events that require people to make major adjustments in their lives, more stressful events influence more illness. Daily hassles: major sources of stress in most peoples lives. Can be chronically irritating although they do not initiate the same general adaptation syndrome evoked by some major life events: concerns about weight, health of a family member, rising prices.