PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Procrastination, Hans Selye, Health Psychology

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 103
• Professor: Richard Gerrig

Document Summary

Stress and health: an important insight: your psychological well-being has an impact on your physical well- being, stress: the nonspecific response of the body to any demand made about it. Chronic stress: enduring arousal, continuing over time: selye: the general adaptation syndrome. ~ flight-or-flight response: kiecolt-glaser et al. (2005): hostile marital interactions and wound healing. They were categorized as hostile or non-hostile based on analyses of behavioral observations. * social support: talk about something you would like to change about yourself. * conflict: discuss and try to resolve one or two marital issues that are conflictual. Thus, the experiment considers both long-term hostility and situational hostility. All members of the couples received small wounds delivered by a suction blister device. The researchers assessed how long the wound survived. Both short-term and long-term hostility caused wounds to survive longer. Stress slows the local production of proinflammatory cytokines at wound sites .