PSYC 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Cortisol, Hiv, Walter Bradford Cannon

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1200
• Professor: Launa C.Leboe- Mcgowan

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14. 1 health, stress, and coping: health psychology and its applications. The study of how behaviour thoughts, and emotions can i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e a perso(cid:374)"s ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al health a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) our ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al health can influence our behaviour, thoughts and emotions. The science of psychology would help people know the risks and to help people llive a longer life. Life shortening health problems like lung, mouth and throat cancer, heart disease, pulmonary diseases, and emphysema is a learned behaviour. Bad for your health, makes you prone to cancers, and diseases etc. People are more likely to smoke if members of their family also smoke: or if they belong to a culture or social group in which smoking is very common. Media depictions of smoking are not helping: a study of adolescents revealed a positive correlation between whether they had tried smoking and their exposure to movies with favorable depictions of smoking.