PSYA02H3 Lecture 13: Psychology Chapter 14 - LECTURE.docx

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Psychology chapter 14 - health, stress & coping. Fat content in food: because of tradition, culture, resources, and geo places it has adopted very less or more fat, the more society takes high fat foods, the more over weight they aree. In kuwait, people who were big meant that they were wealthy, so they were seen hot, over weight wasn"t a prob. 15min delayed gradification study of marsh mellows, if kids don"t touch for that long, they are less likely to be drug addicts and be over weight. Sympathetic nervous system: heart rate increases, blood pressure rises, blood sugar rises, blood flow directed to internal organs, breathing deeper and faster, digestion stops, perspiration increases, adrenal glands secrete adrenalin. It makes your body get ready for flight-or-fight situation: stress is usually a flight-or-fight situation, and our sympathetic nervous system will help us over come stress.