Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Abdominal Pain, Prescription Drug, Conversion Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Uses the principles and methods of psychology to understand how attitudes and behaviors influence health and illness study how people develop positive and negative health habits. Behavioral medicine: interdisciplinary field that studies the relation between behavioral and biomedical science. Medical psychology: study and practice of psychology as it relates to health, illness and medical treatment biospsychosocial model: suggests that complex interactions among biological, psychological and social factors determine health biomedical model: solely biological methods. Psychological influences on health: psychological variables and social factors affect physical health, medical illness can affect psychological health and social functioning. The role of stress in physical and mental health. General adaption syndrome alarm: body mobilizes to meet a threat - increases sns response resistance: individual attempts to cope with or resist the threat exhaustion: continued efforts to overcome stress depletes physical resources increasingly vulnerable to illness. When stress occurs - it affects two major systems -- sympathetic.