PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Blood Pressure, Weight Gain, Pituitary Gland

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1020H
• Professor: Brenda Smith- Chant

Document Summary

Disease model: body funcions well, unless abnormality, accident or disease process. Social determinants of health (bio psychosocial factors: health/ lack of health is a complex interplay of individual, local, environmental, and macro situaions. Hans selye (1956) in his book the life of stress proposed the stages of stress: 1. Acivaion of epi- and norepin-ephrine: hpa: hypothalamus- pituitary- adrenal cortex axis, corisol: Adrenal faigue: iredness, trouble falling asleep/ waking, salt/ sugar craving, simulant use, non-speciic: not a recognized medical condiion: not adrenal insuiciency (blood test) Efects of stress: behavioural and psychological: percepion of environment. Less important than actual: cultural diferences (gender included, stress and illness. Distribuion and paterns of health- events, health- characterisics and their causes of inluences across a populaion. Clear evidence that stress associated with illness. Stress is necessary: freud, piaget, hull: need for tension as moivaion, some stress is needed. Develop and evaluate opions: realisic appraisals. Of stress and coping resources: recognizing (and inhibiing) disrupive thoughts and behaviours.