PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Biopsychosocial Model, Heart Rate, Learned Helplessness
17 Feb 2014
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July 22nd chapter 13: stress: the relationship between stress and disease, contagious: contagious diseases are declining, chronic: chronic diseases are on the rise, generally, biopsychosocial model: there are many factors influencing our health. There are biological, psychological, and social factors: health psychology: there is an increased popularity in health psych. There are focuses on healthy lifestyles, coping responses: stress: major stressors vs. Routine hassles: cumulative nature of stress: routine hassles (sleeping in, forgetting your homework) can accumulate to cause more stress than major stressors (a death, divorce). Little things build up and eat away at us: cognitive appraisals: stress is in the eye of the beholder. : choice between desirable options (pizza or pasta) Avoidance-avoidance: (unemployment or a degrading job) choice between two undesirable options. Approach-avoidance: two goals each with a positive and negative aspect (ask an attractive guy out, could get rejected/ ask and ugly guy out and he will say yes: change: having to adapt.
