SOC205 Chapter Notes -Hans Selye, Lymph Node, Circulatory System
12 Dec 2013
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Cause of death: heart damage due to lack of oxygen. Striking insights: most people acknowledge at least a folk idea that stress can make you sick. Eventual heart akacks and strokes: what about . What is health psychology: study of posi1ve and nega1ve impacts of human behaviour on health, survival and well- being. What is stress: stressors: speci c events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten. Rarely result in sudden death. Cumula1ve e ects in uence health: stress: De ni&on: physical and psychological response to internal or external stressors. It"s all really about our perceived control over stressors. Stressful events: holmes & rahe: people owen get sick awer major life events. How to score the scale. Happiness can counteract the stress. S1ll require readjustment, which many nd extremely stressful: stressful life event scale for undergrads. The cuss: college undergrad stress scale. To do the full test and score: hkp://psycdweeb. weebly. com/ uploads/3/5/2/0/3520924/ tradi1onal_college_student_stress_sc ale. pdf.
