PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Food Intolerance, Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Thought Suppression
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Stressors => specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten the person"s well-being. Stress => the physical and psychological response to internal or external stressors. Health psychology => the subfield of psychology concerned w/ ways psychological factors influence the causes and treatment of physical illness and the maintenance of health. Stressors are personal events that affect the comfortable pattern of our lives and little annoyances that bug us day after day. Thomas holmes and richard rahe proposed that major life changes cause stress and that increased stress causes illness. Research has shown that compared w/ negative events, positive events produce less psychological distress and fewer physical symptoms. However positive events often require readjustment and preparedness that many people find extremely stressful. Chronic stressors => sources of stress that occur continuously or repeatedly. People who report having a lot of daily hassles also report more psychological symptoms and physical symptoms.
