PSY372H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hans Selye, Health Psychology, Peer Pressure
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Psy340: lecture 7: psychosomatic disorders: june 1, 2017. Fastest growing areas of psychology, and this health psychologist will be in every hospital: health psychologists are the idea that your mental and physical health overlap. Yes: everything from ulcer, to cancer to suicide, psycho brain, somatic body. The psychologists in this field are called health psychologists. Well smoking is a behavior that can be stopped. So how do you respond to the changes is really important. Most of us or ok with changes, larger changes is a bit harder and you don"t respond too well (i. e. death, bankruptcy ) Most of us adapt to changes: he was the first psychologist to explain how we adapted to change (and he"s canadian) Stressors: are environmental events that cause an organism to adjust and display this nonspecific stress response: these are changes in our environment that most of us adjust to, but some cant, changes can be spatial or temporal.
