PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Psychopathy, Grey Matter, Hypochondriasis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

Health psychology- promotion and maintenance of health practices. Stress- a pattern of physiological, behavioral, and cognitive responses to stimuli that are perceived as endangering ones well being. Stress is a product of natural selection. Behavioral adaptation to fight or flight enemies. General adaptation syndrome chronic exposure to severe stressors produces 3 physiological stages alarm, resistance, exhaustion experience shock - impairment of normal functioning resistance- nervous system returns to normal functioning exhaustion- loses ability to adapt, susceptible to illness and death. Richard lazarus - argues that our perception of stressor determines that amount of stress we experience effected by cognitive appraisal- perception of a stressful situation. Type a personalities more susceptible to chd (coronary heart disease) Excessive competitive drive, impatience, fast movements, rapid speech. Type b - less competitive, patient, easy going, tolerant, leds likely to suffer from chd. Psychoneuroimmunology - study of the interactions between the immune system and behavior mediated by the nervous system.