CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: James W. Pennebaker, Controllability, Health Professional
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Symptoms require interpretation (subjective) and are therefore unreliable indicators of the need for medical attention, compared to bodily signs of illness (objective) General: you are ill when you don"t feel well, not necessarily an indicator of disease feeling ill after a hangover is not a disease, responses to illness, perceiving the symptoms. Interpreting the symptoms as illness: planning and acting, symptoms of illness are mostly detected when , they are painful or disruptive, they are novel, they are persistent. It is/ could be related to pre-existing chronic disease. Disease: you can have a disease without feeling ill, disease is when a medical professional has found a physical abnormality that suggests that the individual is ill. The secondary attentional system (sas) is more controlled and thought through, e. g. weighing up the likelihood etc. , although assumptions sprung to because of the pas are oftentimes difficult to shake. Cognitive-perceptual model of cioffi (1991: focus on the processes of interpretation of physical signs.
