PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Neal E. Miller, Hans Selye, Smallpox
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Biopsychosocial model: physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors. Small pox) have been taken over by chronic diseases. Health psychology: is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention and treatment of illness. Stress: any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten ones wellbeing and thereby tax ones coping abilities concept of stress was identified an named by hans selye. Used an elaborate questionnaire to asses the overall amount of internal conflict experienced by subjects. Created approach-avoidance conflicts in hungry rats by alternatively feeding and shocking them at one end of a runway apparatus. The rats tended to hover near the runway and alternatively retreating from the goal box at the end of the runway: change: Life changes are any noticeable alterations in ones living circumstances that require readjustment.