PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Coronary Artery Disease, Sympathetic Nervous System

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Joordens, Steve

Document Summary

Stressors: specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten the person"s well-being. Stress: the physical and psychological response to internal or external stressors. Health psychology: psychological factors influence the causes and treatment of physical illness and the maintenance of health. Positive events produce less psychological distress and fewer physical symptoms and the happiness can sometimes even counteract the effects of negative events. Chronic stressors: sources of stress that occur continuously or repeatedly. Small stressors that may be easy to ignore if they happen only occasionally can accumulate to produce distress and illness. Many chronic stressors are linked to particular environments like features of city life; noise, traffic: crowding, pollution threat of violence. Environmental psychology: the scientific study of environmental effects on behavior and health. Children going to school in the flight path had higher blood pressure and gave up more easily when working on difficult problems and puzzles.