Health Psychology

Question 1

What is Health Psychology?

Answer 1

a field that focuses on understanding the psychological influences on how

• Way people stay healthy
• The reasons they become ill
• The way they respond when they become ill

Question 2

What is stress?

Answer 2

any pattern of specific and non-specific responses, that we make to events that upsets are balance are ability to cope

Question 3

What are the two different stress?

Answer 3

• Eustress: (+) stress reaction –> challenge, not threat

- Disstress: (-) stress reaction –> threat, not challenge

Question 4

What is General adaptation syndrome?

Answer 4

• Seyle created this theory
• psychological response
• eustress and distress have the same response (3 stages)
  1. alarm stage–>sympathetic response–> adrenaline
  2. resistance stage–> parasympathetic response–> physiologically normal
  3. Exhaustion stage–> burnout

Question 5

What is Appraisal of events?

Answer 5

• Lazarus created the theory
• cognitive perspective
• distress (2 stages)
  1. Primary appraisal- the person evaluates the degree (mild, moderate, life threatening) to which a situation is precised as a threat
  2 Secondary appraisal- it the situation is a threat we are motivated to find ways to cope with