PSYC 1204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anterior Pituitary, Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, Coronary Artery Disease
10 Apr 2016
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Health psychology: its applications, stress and its consequences, coping and resilience. Health psychology: the study of: how behavior, thought, and emotions can influence a person"s health, how our physical health can influence our behaviour, thoughts and emotions. Causes of death in canada in 2007, the top 3: cancer, heart diseases, other. 21% of deaths in canada are smoke related. People are likely to smoke if members of their family smoke. Or if they belong to a culture or social group in which smoking is common. A study revealed a positive correlation between whether they had tried smoking and their exposure to movies with favourable depictions of smoking. In another study, even adolescents who hadn"t smoked were more likely to report smoking as an aspect of their own identity if they responded positively to a cigarette-smoking movie character. From 1990-2007, there was an association between rates of smoking in movies and rates of smoking among adolescents.
