PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 59: Fad Diet, Behavioural Sciences, Health Psychology
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Optimistic people are more productive, focuses and persistent, better at handling frustration than pessimists. Spirituality: search for the sacred, which may or may not extend to belief in god. Religious i(cid:374)volve(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts a(cid:272)tivate a heali(cid:374)g e(cid:374)ergy that s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tists (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:373)easure. Ruminating: focusing on how bad we feel and endlessly analyzing the causes and consequences of our problems. Both heart rate and blood pressure were higher among participants still rumination g 10 mins after the termination of a stressor. Women have much higher rates and more frequent bouts of depression than men bc they tend to ruminate more than men. Men are more likely to focus on pleasurable or distracting activities. They also adopt a more direct approach to solving their problems than do women. Health psychology: field of psychology, also called behavioural medicine, that integrates the behavioural sciences with the practice of medicine. Combine educational and psychological interventions to promote and maintain health and to prevent and treat illness.
