Psychology 2036A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Chemotherapy, Hypochondriasis, Hypnotherapy

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Lo1: understand the significance of pain: we live with minor pains all the time. For example, a cancerous lump rarely produces pain: pain has psychological as well as medical significance. Lo2: explain why pain is difficult to study: pain is a mysterious and elusive aspects of illness and its treatment. For the soldier, an injury meant that he was alive and was likely to be sent home. For the civilian, the injury represented an unwelcome interruption of valued activities. In contrast, stress and psychological distress may aggravate the experience of pain. Culture and pain: members of some cultures report pain sooner and react more intensely to it than individuals of other cultures, for example, one study found that compared to european-canadian students, Chinese students reported lower pain tolerance for experimentally induced pain: this may differ from differences in cultural norms regarding the expression of pain and different pain mechanisms.

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