PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Biofeedback, Coping With, Chromosome

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Diseases that killed us before were pneumonia, tuberculosis, etc. Now, it"s heart disease, cancer, strokes, etc. behavioural components. Half of the 10 leading causes of death were the direct result of. Behavioural medicine: psychological and medical knowledge are combined. Health psychology: researchers who scientifically study any possible factor that could be linked and associated with health and illness, definition, definition. Stress is usually defined as a negative emotion when we are faced with events that are threatening, challenging, or taxing to us. Stressors are any event that we perceive as threatening, challenging, or taxing to us: the stress response system. Canon one of the first to study stress. Concluded that when people/animals are faced with. Selye something stressful, physiological changes occur in the body. Canon coined the term (cid:498)fight or flight(cid:499: the one who coined the term (cid:498)stress(cid:499, general adaptation syndrom (gas) The body will go into a series of physiological reactions when faced with stressful situations.