PSY 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Autonomic Nervous System, Learned Helplessness, Adrenal Gland
5 Jun 2015
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Chapter 14: stress, coping, and health: biopsychosocial model psychological, and sociocultural factors. Physical illness is caused by an interaction of biological: previously contagious diseases (polio, smallpox, etc. ) were the leading infectious agents, this was replaced with chronic diseases (heart disease, etc. ) How psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of: health psychology health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. thereby tax ones coping abilities, stress. An initial evaluation of whether an event is relative to you, An evaluation of your coping resources and options for: acute stressors. Threatening events that have a relatively short duration and a clear: ex: dealing with the challenge of a major test, home threatened with flooding, endpoint. etc, chronic stressors readily apparent time limit. Threatening events that have a relatively long duration and no: ex: personal financial strains, ongoing pressures from a hostile boss, demands of a sick family member, etc, 4 types of stress, frustration thwarted.
