PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antibody, Coronary Artery Disease, Psychoneuroimmunology
2 Jul 2018
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Week 3 Class 2
Health and Well-being
Can Psychosocial Factors Affect Health?
- The Biopsychosocial model of health incorporates multiple perspectives for understanding and
improving health
- behavior contributes to the leading causes of death
- critical thinking skill: identifying regression to the mean
- placebos can be powerful medicine
- critical thinking skill: recognizing placebo effects when evaluating treatment claims
The biopsychosocial model of health incorporates multiple perspectives
- health psychologists utilize the biopsychosocial model in their investigations into what leads to
health and well-being
- biological factors
- genetic predispositions
- behavioral factors
- lifestyle, stress, and health beliefs
- social conditions
- cultural influences, family relationships, and social support
Behavior Contributes to the leading causes of death
- the leading cause of death in the US is heart disease
- obesity, lack of exercise, smoking, and personality variables
- accidents— another leading cause of death — may be reduced by changing out behaviors,
such as wearing seat belts
Placebos can be powerful medicine
- the placebo effect
- believing that you will get better can lead to improved health even if the treatment is inert
- functional MRI results indicate that when patients have a + expectation about a placebo, the
neural processes involved are the same ones that are activated in response to a biologically
active treatment
Stress
- stress, defined as a pattern of behavioral and physiological responses that match or exceed a
person’s abilities to respond in a healthy way
- stress can occur as a result of happy events such as getting married (eustress) or negative
events such as getting fired (distress)
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Document Summary
The biopsychosocial model of health incorporates multiple perspectives for understanding and improving health. Behavior contributes to the leading causes of death. Critical thinking skill: identifying regression to the mean. Critical thinking skill: recognizing placebo effects when evaluating treatment claims. The biopsychosocial model of health incorporates multiple perspectives. Health psychologists utilize the biopsychosocial model in their investigations into what leads to health and well-being. Cultural influences, family relationships, and social support. The leading cause of death in the us is heart disease. Obesity, lack of exercise, smoking, and personality variables. Accidents another leading cause of death may be reduced by changing out behaviors, such as wearing seat belts. Believing that you will get better can lead to improved health even if the treatment is inert. Functional mri results indicate that when patients have a + expectation about a placebo, the neural processes involved are the same ones that are activated in response to a biologically active treatment.
