PSYC23H3 Lecture Notes - Fixed Action Pattern, John Bowlby, Cortisol
Document Summary
There are health disparities linked to ses physical and mental health outcomes are affected shows how social experience is biologically embedded. However we see some cases that contradict the expected ses health gradient society is more than just how much money and education you have there is a more specific mechanism. Early relationships, communities and behaviors regulate and filter biological embedding. Biology and psychology= relationship is reciprocal, it develops and evolves biderctional biology impacts psychological needs. Chronic and repeated stress is bad for physical and mental health but moderate and brief periods of stress are adaptive and can enhance your learning and social competence. Relationships with others and attachment behaviors can help you cope with daily stress. Mental activities = basic learning mechanisms that organize how we learn everything we form new memories according to time, emotional context and sex difference. Stress and parenting: how we learn to regulate stress. Bowlby= father of attachment= used evidence from animal studies.
