PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: 16Pf Questionnaire, Mother Teresa, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Human mind influences susceptibility and acquiring of disease. Native americans traditionally place emphasis on harmony of mind disease is sign of disharmony: family helps to achieve wajo . Health psychology- study ways people become ill, recover. Psychogenetic= illness directly caused by anxiety direct organic causes. Psychological factors work indirectly by influencing our body suppress immune sys: unhealthy behaviours (substance abuse) Decline for aging not inevitable/same for everyone: measure health outcome, death outcome, people with greater sense of control over physical environment better health, decrease death outcome. Human fertility- interested in couples with infertility, many cone for iv success rate low not bio factors but maybe stress of procedure makes woman reject egg stress. Skin temp, blood pressure, blushing tell stress biofeedback: miller of yale: biofeedback removes the blindfold by supplying info of what is happening. Animals can be trained to be aware of internal organ fxning. Pattern of responses to a disturbed equilibrium.
