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- This model "views health and illness as the product of a combination of factors including biological characteristics (e.g., genetic predisposition), behavioral factors (e.g., lifestyle, stress, health beliefs), and social conditions (e.g. cultural influences, family relationships, social support)"
- This model is circular: Our thoughts and actions affect the environments we choose to interact with, and those environments, in turn, affect the biological underpinnings of our thoughts and actions.
- To understand how this continuous loop operates in life, suppose you are genetically predisposed to be anxious, and you learn that one way to reduce your anxiety is to eat comfort foods such as green tea ice cream, halo-halo, chocolate. If you consume these foods in excess, you will gain weight and eventually become overweight. |
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| a pattern of behavioral and physiological responses to events that match or exceed an organism's ability to respond in a healthy way. |
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| an environmental event or stimulus that threatens an organisms by seeming overwhelming, this elicits a coping response. |
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| this is any response an organism makes to avoid, escape from, or minimize an aversive stimulus. |
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-hormone important for mothers in bonding to newborns, is produced in the hypothalamus and relased into the bloodstream through the pituitary gland.
- Important in women's stress response. |
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| General adaptation syndrome, know the stages, know the name, person responsible |
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(Hans Selye)
- Syndrome occurs in addition to specific physiological responses to particular stressors.
- 3 stages:
1. Alarm stage: an emergency reaction that prepares the body to fight or flee, physiological responses are aimed at boosting physical abilities while reducing activities that make the organism vulnerable to infection after injury.
2. Resistance stage: the defenses prepare for a longer, sustained attack against the stressor; immunity to infection and disease increases somewhat as the body maximizes its defenses.
3. Exhaustion stage: a variety of physiological and immune systems fail. |
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| - study of the response of the body's immune system to psychological variables. (connection between the mind and body, sort of. kind of like how your mood, or mental state can affect how your physical body responds to an infection or other ailment. |
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| individuals have an excessive fear of becoming fat; as a result they refuse to eat. |
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| these individuals alternate between dieting and binge eating. |
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