PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Tension Headache, Optimism, White Blood Cell
5 Apr 2013
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Health psychology - study the relationship between the mind and the body - as well as the way in which these two components respond to the challenges from the environment. How people cope is influenced by their personality. 1. it can influence coping, ( as in interactional model) 2. it can influence how the person appraises or interprets events. Personality and illness are both expressions of an underlying predisposition - suggests that something is causing both personality and illness. People do these behaviours when they truly don"t have illnesses, but some don"t do them when they do have illnesses. Personality influences the degree to which a person perceives and pays attention to bodily sensations and the degree to which the person interprets and labels those sensations as an illness these models are not mutually exclusive. The concept of stress stressors - events that cause stress.
