Psychology A1 Flashcards
health
world health organisation (1948)
-health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not just the absence of disease
biomedical model of health and ill-health
-absence of illness
-health in terms of physical and bio factors
-health and illness seen as seperate
biopsychosocial model of health and ill-health
-psychological, biological and social factors can explain ill-health
-health exists on a continuum (scale)
Engel (1977)
-biomedical doesn’t consider all factors
definitions of stress
-emotional and physical response to a threatful situation.
stressors
-physical or emotional
-physical stressors, things in environment (temperature, noise)
-psychological stressors, major life events, everyday niggles, work-place and personality
physiological stress
-how the body responds to a stressor (e.g increased heart rate, sweating, nausea)
psychological stress
-emotion you experience when you’re stressed (e.g anxiety)
Yerkes Dodson law
‘inverted U’
-small bits of anxiety can have a positive effect on performance
perceived ability to cope
-psychological stress occurs when the perceived demands of your environment are greater than perceived ability to cope with them
perception of available resources
-refers to how we think about our ability to deal with stressors – physical
–psychological
addiction
-a complex psychological disorder
-can be addicted to substances (drugs) - physiological
-can be addicted to behaviours (gambling)
International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
-puts addictions under categories
-‘disorders due to substance use or behaviours’
two signs that indicate a person is physically addicted to a substance
- experience withdrawal effects, leads to a relapse
- person builds a tolerance
-same as a behavioural addiction (shopping, gambling etc.)
Mark Griffith (2005)
-created six key components that should be required for a diagnosis of behavioural addiction
