Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cortisol, Drug Injection, Peer Pressure

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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5. 1 stress, personality, and illness: personality is made up of the unqiue grouping of behavorial traits that a person exhibits consistently across situations, eg. An individual who is chronically grumpy, hostile, and routinely frusturated is more likely to develop an illness. May have less anger but lots of hostility: hostility may be a decided risk factor for some people but not others. Dperession and heart diseas: depressive disorders: sadness and despair, being diagnosed with heart disease makes people depressed the emotional dysfunction of depression may bause heart disease. Stress and cancer: cancer: malignant cell growth, may occur in many organ systems in the body, new cells come together to form tumors, stress and personality influence the course of the disease. Onset of cancer setts of chain type c (or cancer prone personality) but failed to link between cancer and traits reaction of stressful events.