PSY 1102 Lecture : Chapter 12 - Emotions, Stress and Health.docx
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Chapter 12 emotions, stress and health (p. 527 549) 10 leading causes of death today, half the mortality rate is due to our behaviours. Behavioural medicine: combining psychological and medial principles in knowledge. Health psychology: psychological part, this field is exploding: stress and stressors. Canon: was the first to scientifically study and research stress. He concluded that both humans and animals, when they are faced with a threatening situation, their bodies are going to go into the stress response. Your body releases stress hormones like epinephrine and norepinephrine in response to the stress. Your body is preparing itself for fight or flight. Selye: another important researcher who spent 40 years of his life researching stress, he was a canadian doctor, he was not doing research on stress, but instead stumbled upon it. Concluded that when stress because chronic we go through general. Adaptation syndrome (gas: we got through 3 sequences: