PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Asthma, Startle Response, Peer Pressure
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Generated by the mind and cause physiological symptoms. Ex: asthma may from stress then becomes physiological. Ex: ulcer gastrointestinal seem to be caused by stressed. How you think and how you feel will affect recuperation) (physically), how you age (physical), whether you get a disease or not. Health psychologist is a fast growing subfield in psychology relatively new area. Health psychologists typically work in conjunction with physician. Health psychology is a subfield of psychology that is concerned with how psychological and social variables affect health and illness. Health psychologists develop programs to reduce the levels of risk factors related to diseases. Hans selye developed the concept of stress as the nonspecific response of the body to demands to adjust to a wide range of changes. Selye outlined a series of biological responses, called the general adaptation syndrome (gas), that occur as the body deals with stressors: response to a change in the environment , initial reaction to the bang .
