PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Adrenal Gland, Sympathetic Nervous System, Perceived Control

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Stress and health (chapter 12: stress and illness, introduction. Today - dying from diseases with strong lifestyle component (heart, cancer, strokes) Half of the mortality rate of 10 cultures are based on behaviour. Scienti c eld combining psychological knowledge and medical knowledge. Health psychology - psychological contribution to behavioural medicine. Try to understand any factors linked with illness. Link between motivation and disease, behaviours and disease: stress & stressors. A negative emotion experienced when facing events that are seen as threatening or taxing to us. How we perceive an event affects our stress. Stressor: any event we perceive as threatening, challenging or taxing: the stress response system. Canon - one of the rst to scienti cally study stress. Concluded that humans and animals when faced with threatening situation their bodies go through a psychological change. When we are stressed - heart rate and blood pressure go up, pupils dilate. Body will decrease other functions and shut down.