health psychology & models
Placebo effects occur when an individual experiences the supposed positive side effects.
The effect where an individual experiences the negative side effects.
What is Nocebo effect?
What are cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine?
The 2 main lymphocytes
What are Thymus (T-cells) and Bone marrow (B-cells)?
The autonomic nervous systems 2 branches.
Best color for placebo pill
What is Yellow?
The idea that your beliefs and perceptions about health predict the likelihood that you will change your health behaviors.
What is the Health belief model?
The 3-stage process that the body naturally responds to stress AND its stages.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?:
Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
A blood clot
Studies the interplay between the mind and the immune system.
What is Psychoneuroimmunology?
Better predictor of cardiovascular disease than cholesterol
What is C-reactive protein [CRP]?
The holistic perspective that illness, health, and wellness can be best explained in the interactions of biological, psychological, and social factors.
What is the Biopsychosocial model?
Glands associated with providing stress hormones.
What are the Adrenal glands?
The 2 T-cells.
What are Helper T-cells & Cytotoxic T-cells?
This system drives rest-and-digest functions
What is the Parasympathetic system?
Hormones released in Tend-and-Befriend
Oxytocin and endorphins
Stressful thinking or events that may divert physical energy away from your immune system leaving the person more vulnerable to disease and infection.
What are Psychosomatic disorders?
2 main types of stresors
What are daily hassles & traumatic events?
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What are acute & chronic stressors?
Cells that do about everything and sometimes on their own destroy antigens.
What are Macrophages?
PNI was started by a behavioral psychologist (Dr. Ader) studying classical conditioning. Found that you can condition this.
What are Immune responses?
Example of cognitive appraisal:
"A student deciding to seek out a study group after realizing a final exam will be difficult."
(hint: what appraisal is this)
Environmental model that examines how people and their environment influence each other.
What is Social Ecology Model (SEM)?
This person pioneered stress research, because of their study with injecting rats discovering the general adaptation syndrome.
Who is Hans Selye?
A buildup of fats, cholesterol, calcium, etc. within artery walls, causing them to narrow, harden, and restrict oxygen-rich blood flow.
(hint: caused by high blood pressure, cholesterol, and chronic inflammation)
What is atherosclerotic plaque?
The immune systems 2 major characteristics.
What is: the ability to differentiate self from non-self & to exhibit specificity and memory.
When lymphocytes overreact and strike and benign material. This leads to ______ diseases. (e.g., allergic reactions to harmless pollen...)
What is Autoimmune?