PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Intellectualization, Autonomic Nervous System, Short Circuit

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jennifer Steeves

Document Summary

Biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Health psychology is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Acute stressors are threatening events that have a relatively short duration and a clear endpoint i. e. dealing with a major exam, encountering a drunk, and etc. Chronic stressors are threatening events that have a relatively long duration and no readily apparent time limit i. e. persistent financial strains such as debt. Four major types of stress, frustration, conflict, change and pressure. Frustration occurs in any situation in which the pursuit of some goal is thwarted. You experience frustration when you want something and cant have it, often eliciting aggression and anger. Conflict occurs when two or more incompatible motivations or behavioral impulses compete for expression.