PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Barbara Fredrickson, Hans Selye, Adrenal Medulla
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Biopsychosocial model: physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors. Healthy psychology: concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention and treatment of illness: the nature of stress. Stress: any circumstances that are deemed to threaten one"s well being hence tax one"s coping abilities. Individual"s response to stress may depend on: type of stressor and its controllability, biological factors (age and gender, individual"s previous experience with stress. Research: routine hassles may have significant harmful effects on mental and physical health. A. 2) appraisal: stress lies in the eye of the beholder. Primary appraisal: an initial evaluation of whether an event: irrelevant, relevant but not threatening, stressful. Secondary appraisal: evaluation of your coping resources and options for dealing with the stress: major type of stress. Acute stressors: threatening events that have a relatively short duration and a clear endpoint.
