Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Impression Management, Leptin, Dieting

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

Document Summary

Smoking: #1 preventable cause of death and disease in canada: overall rates are dropping, 17% of canadians 15 years or older smoke, rates are higher in: Smoking often begins in adolescence (peer influence), factors related to teen smoking: parental modelling, peer influence (desirable image) People think it makes you "rebellious, tough and mature: cigarette advertising, personal characteristics (e. g. , risk taker, low self-esteem, etc. ) These people do not have any benefit from smoking: addictive smoker: psychological dependence on smoking. Usually waits no longer than 30 minutes to smoke in the morning and considers the first cigarette of the day as the most important: heredity may play a role. Health consequences of smoking: reduced life expectancy and increased risk of many illnesses, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseass, environmental tobacco smoke (ets) related cardiovascular disease. Alcohol use: 76% of canadians have consumed alcohol in the past 12 months (canadian centre on substance.