PSYC 1002 Study Guide - Hans Selye, Biopsychosocial Model, Learned Helplessness
19 Feb 2014
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Newfoundland has the least, but has the greatest sense of humour which seems to be a good way of keeping stress at bay. Biomedical model focus is on illness rather than health; looks at biological factors: looking at biological factors and how they affect health. A model of illness that holds that physical illness is caused. The subfield of psychology concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Concerned with psychological factors that contribute to health, illness and response to illness. Promotes interventions to foster good health and aid in recovery from illness. Don"t necessarily have an underlying biological reason but is related to our psychological part. Stress doesn"t have to be a negative challenge or change, just any type of situation that requires you to change/adapt equals a stress. Any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well-being and.
