PSYC 1010 Chapter : PSYC 1010- (MODULES 38,39) STRESS.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Health psychology: a subfield of psychology that provides psychology"s contribution to behavioral medicine. Stress is a concept used informally to describe threats or challenges, and other times a response. The event becomes a stressor; the physical and emotional responses are a stress reaction; the process relating to the threat is the stress. Stress: the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. Stress can be positive- a momentary stress can mobilize the immune system for fending off infections and healing wounds or arouses and motivates us to conquer problems. Extreme or prolonged stress can be harmful. Stressors fall into three main types: catastrophes. Unpredictable large-scale events (e. g. wars, earthquakes, and famines) For those who respond to catastrophes by relocating to another country, the trauma of uprooting and family separating combine with the challenges of adjusting to the new culture"s language, ethnicity, climate, and social norms.