PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Autonomic Nervous System, Anxiety Disorder
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Self control behaviour that produces a larger, long term reward when people are faced with the choice between it and a smaller, short term reward. Health psychology the branch of psychology involved in the promotion and maintenance of sound health practices. Stress a pattern of physiological, behavioural and cognitive responses to stimuli that are perceived as endangering one"s well being. Stress is not always bad, such as competition stress, however over long periods of time it can have negative effects. Stressors stimuli that are perceived as endangering one"s well being. General adaptation syndrome (gas): the model proposed by selye to describe the body"s adaptation to chronic exposure to severe stressors. The body passes through an orderly sequence of 3 physiological stages: alarm, resistance and exhaustion. (fig 16. 4: alarm reaction arousal of autonomic nervous system which occur when the organism is first confronted with a stressor.
