PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Positive Illusions, Coronary Artery Disease, American Psychiatric Association

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

The bio psychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors. Health psychology is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention and treatment of illness. Stress as any circumstance that threatens or are perceived to threaten ones well being and that thereby tax ones coping abilities. Stress as an everyday event: the aftermath of natural disasters typically find elevated rates of psychological problems and physical illness in the communities affected by these disasters. Appraisal: stress lies in the eye of the beholder: primary appraisal: is an initial evaluation of whether an event is 1. Frustration occurs in any situation in which the pursuit of some goal is thwarted. You experience when you want something and you cant have it. Luckily most frustrations are brief and insignificant. Frustration can be sources of significant stress.