Health and Well-Being

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Health Psychology

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A field that integrates research on health and on psychology

Question 2

Well-being

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a positive state in which we strive for optimal health and life satisfaction

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Medical model

Answer 3

getting rid of disease

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Psychological model

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Behaviors and attitudes are crucial to achieving health

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Leading Causes of Death in the US

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Heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, accidents, Alzheimer’s, diabetes

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Stress

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Involves physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to to events that are perceived as threatening or challenging

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Stressors

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Events (imaginary or real) that elicit stress

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Eustress

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Produced by positive life events

e.g., getting married

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Distress

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Produced by negative life events

e.g., getting a divorce

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Types of stressors

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Catastrophes - like a tornado
Major life stressors- like having a child
Daily hassels- like driving through traffic

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Consequences of Stress

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Increased BP, Cardiac disease, diabetes, decreased sex drive, alcohol and cigarette use

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Contributors of Heart Disease

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Genetics, behavior, personality

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Type A personality

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individuals are competitive, overachieving, aggressive, hostile and impatient

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Type B personality

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individuals are relaxed, noncompetitive, accommodating and easygoing

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Emotion focused coping

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Attempt to prevent an emotional response to stressor, strategies are often passive and do NOT resolve problem

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Problem-focused coping

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Behavior aimed at resolving the problem that produces stress, strategies are often active and aim at reducing the source of stress

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Insulin

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Hormone that decreases blood glucose after eating has begun, making us want to eat more

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What part of the brain controls behaviors that start and stop eating?

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The hypothalamus

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Basal Metabolic Rate

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Rate at which the body burns energy during rest, Changes with age and activity level

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Some social cues that tell us to eat

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Classical conditioning to eat at a certain hour, appeal of food, cultural ideas of eating for comfort or with ceratin activities

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Obesity

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People with BMIs >30

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Normal BMI range

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18.5-25

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2 problems with BMI

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• Does not take age, sex, bone structure or body fat distribution into account
• a clear relationship between BMI and health outcomes does not exist for the very obese

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Body Shape Index (BSI)

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Considers the amount of abdominal fat

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Determinants of Obesity

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Biological factors, Behavioral factors, Cognitive & Emotional factors, Societal factors

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Yo-yo diets

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Slow down of weight loss with every dieting episode; faster weight gain when normal feeding is resumed

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Anorexia Nervosa

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Excessive preoccupation with body weight

View themselves as fat even if they are severely malnourished

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Bulimia Nervosa

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Alternate between binge eating and dieting

Excessive exercising, vomiting, and/or abuse of laxatives