PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Trait Theory, Albert Bandura
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There is more to health than germs and disease-we also need to consider the amount of stress in our lives ad how we deal with that stress. When people undergo a major upheaval in their lives, such as losing a spouse, declaring bankruptcy, or being forced to resettles in a new culture, their chance of dying increases. The negative feelings and beliefs that occur whenever people feel unable to cope with demands from their environment. Your body"s physiological response to threatening events. Is the degree to which people have to change and readjust their lives in response to an external event. Graduation from university is a happy occasion, but it can be stressful because of the major changes it sets in motion in one"s life. The belief that we can influence our environment in way that determines whether we experience positive or negative outcomes. Ex patients who had undergone a coronary angioplasty because of diseased arteries.