PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Observational Error, Signify, Akrasia
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Stressors specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten the person"s well-being. Stress the physical and psychological response to internal or external stressors. Health psychology the sub-field of psych concerned with ways psych factors influence the causes and treatment of physical illness and the maintenance of health. Chronic stresors sources of stress that occur continuously or repeatedly: strained relationships, long lines at the supermarkets, over work all, city environments noise, crowding, pollution, threat of violence accumulate to produce distress and illness. Environmental psych environmental affects on behaviour and health. Stressors are events and threats that place specific demands on a person or threaten well-being. Sources of stress include major life events (even the happy ones), catastrophic events, and chronic hassles-some of which can be traced to an environment. Events are most stressful when we perceive that there is no way to control or deal with the challenge.
