Psychology 1000 Chapter 15: PSYCHO1000, Ch 15

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: All

Document Summary

"stone age physiological and biochemical responses to emotion have become inappropriate in a space age setting, and can pave the way to psychosomatic diseases" Something in our environment: often the trigger of stress, things can be in the future or right in front of us (stressors, places demands on you (you are in a position to deal with something) Our response to something: how do we process and perceive, emotional reactions (bodily responses too) Stress and health: biomedical model, biopsychosocial model, rather than looking at how to treat disease we look at body, life and mind, biological, psychological and sociocultural problems cause health problems. Intensity: duration, predictability can you predict it, controllability, can you control it, chronicity, daily, weekly, can be measured on life events scale. From all these we get a score which is an indication about how much stress you could be under.