PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shelley E. Taylor, Psychoneuroimmunology, Epitope
1 Feb 2017
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Health psychology: developing our understanding of psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill and how they respond when they do get ill. How do we shape individuals behavior and push them toward healthy behavior without forcing them (promotion of health) Stress is a subjective feeling produced by events that you perceive as uncontrollable and threatening. Eustress is positive stress in which helps performance. (your alarm in the morning waking you up for class) Distress is negative stress, which causes upset or illness. Stressors are extreme in the sense that they produce the feeling of being overwhelmed or overloaded. They are both acute and chronic in nature. External: sources of stress such as environmental stress, social stress, interpersonal stress, organizational stress or stem from life events and daily hassles. Internal: sources of stress such as lifestyle choices, negative self-talk, thought patterns or stressful personality types.
