PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Antibody, Diarrhea, Stress (Biology)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

Promoting health: stress and illness, introduction, stress and stressors, stress and the heart, stress and the immune system, introduction. Half of the deaths of north america are due to health related causes. 1900 causes of death: tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhea. Today: heart disease, cancer, stroke, lung disease. Behavioural medicine: combine medical and psychological knowledge. Health psychology: fastest growing field of psych, investigate psych factors that may affect health/illness, study what factors are involved in recovery of illness, psychology component of behavioural medicine, stress and stressors. Stress is the process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges. Negative emotion in response to any event that is perceived to be taxing or to be threatening or to be beyond of our abilities to cope with it. Stress is not in the situation/event, it is in how it is interpreted/handled. Can be traced back to very long ago. When stress is chronic, there are three phases (general.