PSY100Y5 Lecture 7: Lab 7 Notes

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Positive psychology, health psychology, mind body revolution in medicine. States that psychology should be concerned with strength as with weakness, building best in life as it is repairing the worst and make lived of normal people more fulfilling as with healing pathology. Eight steps to happiness and life satisfaction - see the time article. The satisfaction with life scale - a 5-question measure of happiness. The social readjustment scale - a measure of stressors in the last 6 months. Ela(cid:454)atio(cid:374) respo(cid:374)se is a (cid:373)e(cid:272)ha(cid:374)is(cid:373) of the (cid:271)od(cid:455) (cid:272)ou(cid:374)teri(cid:374)g the (cid:858)flight-or-fight(cid:859) respo(cid:374)se. Edu(cid:272)es the (cid:271)od(cid:455)(cid:859)s (cid:373)eta(cid:271)olis(cid:373), heart a(cid:374)d (cid:271)reathi(cid:374)g rate as (cid:449)ell as (cid:271)lood pressure a(cid:374)d (cid:373)us(cid:272)le tension. Calms brain activity, increases immune response, helps attention and decision making and changes gene activities that are opposite of those associated to stress. Eight steps of be(cid:374)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s ela(cid:454)atio(cid:374) espo(cid:374)se: develop strategies for coping with stress and hardships.