PSYC-105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Binge Drinking, Liver Disease, Complications Of Pregnancy
1 Oct 2018
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Optimism: focus on the positive ness: leads people to be more productive, focused, and handle frustration better, lower mortality rates > live longer and have stronger immune systems. Terror management theory: all of us have this inner terror that we"re going to die. We do things to try to minimize that fear. Rumination and worry: endlessly over-thinking past and future events: more common in women than men, when people ruminate, they have higher blood pressure and increased heart rate. Healthy living: health psychology (behavioural medicine) integrates behavioural sciences with medicine. Includes education and psychological interventions: promotes having good health, as well as preventing and treating illnesses. Stop smoking: 22% of men and 16% of women are currently smokers older than 16 years of age, only 5% successfully quit when doing it on their own, when using methods developed by health psychologists, 25-35% can quit.
