PSY333H1 Lecture Notes - Biomedical Model, Psychoneuroimmunology, Condom

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY333H1
• Professor: Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi

Document Summary

Be aware that your anxiety is just known to you: 2. Look at somebody who looks cheerful: 3. Help boost your elf esteem so you have positive ideas of self. 3 types of behavior: passive, aggressive, assertive (ex. Psychological approach to health psychology: culture: is a set of dynamic and stable set of rules, behaviors-- your emotional heritage it all depends on the context, data information knowledge judgment wisdom, lack of expressiveness: misunderstanding become intensified don"t understand one another. Early stages of health psychology development: 1) behaviorism, 2) cognition and personality, 3) coping styles, 4) psychoneuroimmunology (cohen& herbert) Focus on coping behaviors: rodney & salovey(1980) focus on how people cope with all aspects of illness, coping styles (miller), 1) monitors information seekers, 2) bunters information avoiders. Prominent theories in health psychology: 1) health belief model, assumes health beliefs best explain health behaviors, health belief applied to condom usage, your beliefs have an impact (silver& mcintosh 1997&1998)-