Lecture 4 Flashcards
What are examples of informational social support?
advice, suggestions
money, time, and concrete help are all examples of:
instrumental social support
what is emotional social support?
empathy, concern, caring, love, trust
which social support helps you understand the nature of your stressors?
appraisal
In the House, Landis, and Umbertson study, what was found?
the less social support, the more likely to die
What are the three ways to promote healthy behaviors?
social encouragement, modeling, peer influence
What is the buffering model of social interaction?
social support kind of knocks out the effects of stress
What is the direct model of social interaction?
stress is only ONE of many health impairments, and social support helps more than just stress. social support has a direct effect on health.
What did Naomi Eisenberg find?
The brain (ACC) doesn’t treat social pain differently than physical pain
What is DNA methylation?
The addition of a methyl group to the DNA base cytosine (silences a part of your genetic code)
