PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Tension Headache, Aids, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors. Health psychology concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention and treatment of illness. Stress any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well-being and that thereby tax one"s coping abilities. The threat may be to immediate physical safety, long-range security, self-esteem, reputation, peace of mind, or mnay other things that one values. Stress is cumulative it adds up (stresses at home, at school) and yet collectively they could create great strain. Appraisal: stress lies in the eye of the beholder. Primary appraisal is an initial evaluation of whether an event is (1) irrelevant to you, (2) relevant but not threatening or (3) stressful: primary appraisal would determine whether you saw an upcoming psychology exam as stressful. People"s appraisal of stressful events are highly subjective depending on the person.
