PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Biopsychosocial Model, Autonomic Nervous System, Catecholamine

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

The bio-psychosocial model of health holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, The bio-psychosocial model of health psychosocial, and sociocultural factors. Health psychology is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Stress stress as any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well being and that thereby tax one"s coping abilities. The experience of feeling stressed depends on what events one notices and how one chooses to appraise or interpret them: catastrophic events: earthquakes, combat stress floods. o. Social and cultural sources: social conditions that promote stress (poverty, racism, crime), culture clashes lead to stress. Acculturative stress stress that results from the pressure of adapting to a new culture. Life changes: death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job, promotion. o: daily hassles: rush hour traffic, long lines, job stress, burnout, frustration, conflict.