PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cortisol, Corticosteroid, Hypothalamus

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

Document Summary

Is concerned with how pyschosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention and treatment of illness. Physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychosocial and sociocultural factors. Approximately 4 of 5 canadiancs have at least one modified risk factor for chronic disease. Stress is the constellation of cognitive, emotional, physiological, and behavioural reactions the organism experiences as it interacts with perceived threats and challenges. Acute stress: threatening events that have relativity. Chronic stress: threatening events that have relativity and no readily apparent time limit. Stress as a stimulus, process and response: stimulus. Any circumstance that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well-being and that. But many everyday events: stress as a process. Stress is a process (between person and environment) Richard lazarus: stress is between a person and their environment. Make a judgement about the relative significance of the event and evaluate it as a threat or challenge.