Psychology 2036A/B Chapter 5: Psych Chapter 5 Reading Notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Psych chapter 5 reading notes: health compromising behaviours. Window of vulnerability in adolescence: drinking to excess, smoking, drug use, over-controlled eating, unsafe sex, risk- taking behaviours leading to accidents, these can cluster together to form a problem behaviour syndrome. Not all hbc evolve during adolescence (i. e. alcoholism is special risk for older adults) Similar factors that elicit and maintain many of these hcb. Hcb intimately bound up in self-presentation process adoles(cid:272)e(cid:374)ts" efforts to appear sophisticated, cool, tough, or savvy in their social environments. Many hcb are pleasurable: may enhance ability to cope with stress thrill-seeking, very rewarding although extremely dangerous. Development of these hcb occurs gradually individual is exposed to it, becomes susceptible, experiments with it, and later engages in regular use. Hcb not acquired all at once, but through a process that make different interventions at different stages important.