PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Binge Eating, James W. Pennebaker, Binge Eating Disorder
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Health psychology: field of psychological science concerned with the events that affect physical well-being. Well-being: positive state in which we feel our best; it includes striving for optimal health and life satisfaction. Biophysical model: a model of health that integrates the effects of biological (genetic predisposition), behavioural (actions, thoughts, lifestyles, stress) and social factors (cultural influences, family relationships, social support) on health and illness: everything interconnected. Regression to the mean the average or mean. Anorexia nervosa: an eating disorder characterized by an excessive fear or becoming fat and thus a refusal to eat. 15-20% of those with anorexia eventually die- starve themselves to death. Bulimia nervosa: an eating disorder characterized by dieting, binge eating, and purging: binge eating disorder: binge eating, without purging obesity. Smoking: adolescents more likely to smoke if parents do, adolescent smokers show a false consensus effect-they overestimate the # of adolescent and adult smokers.
