PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hans Selye, Health Psychology, Psychopathology
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4004 sidsmith makeup exam: starting at 11. Psychophysiological disorders disorders that are physical in nature and they have a psychological cause: think yourself sick, health psychologists. Health psychology is a subfield of psychology that is concerned with how psychological and social variables affect health and illness. Programs to reduce the levels of risk factors related to diseases: psychophysiological disorders are the same as psychosomatic, we all have herpes. Reflexive response ns, in response to loud noise to warn you of danger alarm response startled and then fight or flight (hormones released) Learning to not scream after exposure habituation. Alarm resistance exhaustion (deplete recourses) The alarm stage of the gas is equivalent to the well- known fight or flight response. The combination of the activation of the sympathetic ns and the outpouring of stress hormones prepares the body for a brief period of physical action in response to a threat.
