PSY BEH 102C Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Behavioral Medicine, Behavioural Sciences, Psychoneuroimmunology
1 Apr 2017
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Major contributing factors to illness are psychological and behavioral. Behavioral medicine: behavioral science is applied to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical problems. Health psychology: not interdisciplinary, psychological factors for health promotion. Two ways they influence: they can affect the basic biological processes that lead to illness and disease, long lasting behavior patterns may put some people at risk to develop some physical disorders. Stages of stress: alarm response, resistance response, exhaustion stage. This is all called the general adaption syndrome. Psychological and social factors have a link. Predictability and controllability of events in one"s life. There are responses in threats and challenges to the body from stress levels. Stress is a feeling of threat that you get, which can result in anxiety. What differs most about emotions are psychological factors: especially self-efficacy and sense of control. Level of stress plays a role in whether you develop a disease or not.
