PSYC 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Abdominal Pain, Standard-Definition Television, Headache

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2040
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Physical" disorders and health psychology chapter 9 outline: psychological and social factors that influence health the immune system and physical disorders cardiovascular problems chronic pain chronic fatigue syndrome psychosocial treatment of physical disorders biomedical model of health descartes dualism: Mind and body are separate biological, psychological, and social factors absence of disease does not equate health. Hpa loop leads to more damage in hippocampus (vicious cycle) stress physiology: social and psychological factors chronic/long-term cortisol secretion: reduces testosterone cardiovascular hypertension impaired immune system response. Muscular atrophy primate studies pointed to predictability and controllability as very important to the regulation of stress physiology. An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage". The inability to communicate verbally does not negate the possibility that an individual is experiencing pain and is in need of appropriate pain-relieving treatment". 25-30% of adolescents; consistent across countries (i. e. perquin et al .