PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Autonomic Nervous System, Health Psychology, Psychoneuroimmunology

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Week 3 health psychology and health management. Health psychologist: psychologists studying how posiive and negaive behaviors impact the human health. Example of negaive psychological inluence on health poverty discriminaion peer environment social contagion: subtle unintenional spreading of a behavior as a result of social interacion. Human perceive stress from elements beyond visible adversary and physically respond as if we are facing actual danger. General adaptaion syndrome (gas): how our body physiologically respond to stress-hans selye. Stress: psychological/physiological reacion that occurs when demands exceeds exising resources: alarm. Shock causing impairment of normal funcioning: resistance/adaptaion. Resistance to the stressor increases to above normal: exhausion, overexposure to stressor loses ability to adapt. Psychoneuroimmunology: study of the relaionship between immune system and nervous system. Chronic stress can lead to physical illness stuck in later stage. Stress has signiicant impact on the immune system. Elevated level of autonomic nervous system=slower response to aniretroviral therapies.