PSY 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chronic Condition, Nonperson, Controllability

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 325
• Professor: Daniel Moritz

Document Summary

Chapter 3 - seeking and receiving health care. Illness: people can have a disease and not be ill, disease: the process of physical damage within the body. In the us and other western countries: the physician: physicians look at a person"s symptoms and make a diagnosis. Dealing with symptoms: symptoms: sign(s) that may or may not indicate disease. Illness behavior: activities undertaken by people who experience symptoms but who haven"t yet received a diagnosis. Low ses groups wait longer to seek care: once they do, symptoms may be more severe, ethnic background, european americans most likely to seek medical care, ethnic minorities are more likely to experience discrimination. Those who experience discrimination less likely to seek care: characteristics of the symptoms, more likely to seek attention when, symptoms are more visible, person perceives symptoms as more severe, symptoms are frequent and persistent. The symptoms interfere with everyday life: conceptualization of the disease.