Emotions

Question 1

How does emotions influence health?

Answer 1

-Always an emotional aspect to how we react to body signals
- What we pays attention
- Important factor, influence health behaviors and how we deal with health threats

Question 2

What is the limbic system?

Answer 2

• A part of the brain, functions including both emotions, emotion regulation and memory
• Hypothalamus
  Calm, soothing
• Thalamus
  Relays information
• Hippocampus
  Part of memory conversion
• Amygdala
  Signaling danger/threat

Question 3

What are emotions?

Answer 3

• Different depending on what emotion theory, but it is multidimensional
• Emotions as feelings
  -Emotions as motivations
• Emotions as evaluations

Question 4

Fear and avoidance model of pain

Answer 4

A circle model showing how fear of pain can lead to avoidance of what triggered the pain
-If you show no fear then youll get out of the circle, confronting your pain and be able to recover

Question 5

How can different emotions effect health behaviours?

Answer 5

• Anxiety
  In correlation with illnesses, can make it worse
  Breast cancer example
• Depression
  Loose motivation to do anything
  Reduced optimism
• Anger
  Correlation between anger and heart conditions - study