PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Impulsivity, Coronary Artery Disease, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jennifer Steeves

Document Summary

Coping and health: biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors, there are changing patterns of illness contagious vs. Chronic diseases: death rates for infectious diseases have been dropping; other factors increased, health psychology concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention and treatment of illness. Doesn"t take into account positive circumstances that cause stress: stress is a nonspecific response of the body to any demand placed upon it (hans. Selye: stressor anything that produces stress (a biological response) Classification of stressors by magnitude: ambient stressors everyday stressors, daily hassles, stressful life events, cataclysmic events. Classification of stressors by duration: acute short duration with clear endpoint (e. g. a midterm, chronic long duration with no clear endpoint (e. g. looking after someone w/a disability)