PSY 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hans Selye, Walter Bradford Cannon, Biopsychosocial Model

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 805
• Professor: Alba Agostino

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Topics: what is stress, what is health, antonovsky"s salutogenic model, the impact of stress on health and performance, the impact of stress and lifestyle on longevity, the physiology of stress, the psychology of stress. What is stress: stress can be experienced emotionally, physiologically, behaviorally, and cognitively, most healthy people return to their homeostatic baseline after a stressful experience. Critical life events theory (holmes & rahe: resource theory. Hans selye (1907-1982: focus on chronic stress, general adaptation syndrome (gas) Self-regulation of physiological processes to ensure properties of the organism remain within a stable range. A response to a stressor that quickly increases heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure in preparation to fight or flee. 3-phase process to explain effects of long-term stress - gas: phase 1: alarm reaction, phase 2: stage of resistance, phase 3: stage of exhaustion. Resistance stage: body deals with stressors until its natural resources begin to.