PSY100H1 Chapter 10: Chapter 10

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Health psychology= research on health and psychology. Well-being= positive state that includes striving for optimal health and life satisfaction. Biopsychosocial model of health incorporates multiple perspectives for understanding and improving health. Biospychosocial model= integrates the effects of biological, behavioural and social factors on health and illness. Behaviour contributes to the leading causes of death. Many lifestyle variables, (eating unhealthy food, being obese and leading sedentary life) contributes to diseases that reduce quality and length of life. People with certain personality types (hostile) has increased risk for heart disease and earlier death. Placebo effect= drug or treatment, unrelated to the particular problem of the patient, may make the person feel better because the person believes the drug is effective. When patients have pos expectation about a placebo, the neural processes involved in responding to it are the same ones activated in response to biologically active treatment.