BACH1161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Visual Cortex, Representativeness Heuristic, Personality Disorder

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Behavioural and Social Science in Health
• Course: BACH1161
• Professor: Mairwen Jones

Document Summary

Nature + nurture > what factors are involved: nature: biological influences, nurture: environmental influences and learning. Influenced by learning and exp > depression as learned behavior: nurture based treatments. Increases availability of serotonin in synapses: theory: do these drugs promote regeneration of faulty brain structures (neurogenesis) Links b/w psychological factors and health: psychological states and behavior affects health and vice versa, depression > cardiovascular health. Links specifically b/w stress and physical and mental health: extreme stress can lead to physical symptoms (conversion disorder) Effects of stress on physical and mental health. Initially aids physiological arousal: resistance/adaptation: body adapts to stressors, release of stress hormones, eg starvation > reduced desire for physical activity to conserve energy. Immune system may be almost dead bc of excess stress hormone activity. Increased risk of illness: termed by hans selye (1907-82): based on animal studies, acute stress: short term, caused (cid:271)(cid:455) stuff eg a(cid:396)gu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, assig(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts > i(cid:374)di(cid:396)e(cid:272)t (cid:858)th(cid:396)eats(cid:859, little outlet for ans arousal.