The Healthy Life

Health Psychology focuses on the role of psychology in -

Maintaining health and preventing and treating both mental and physical illnesses

Biopsychosocial Model of Health

Biology, psychology, and social factors are important to consider in the development in diseases

Psychosomatic medicine

Interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on the biological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to physiological changes over time

Placebo effect

A beneficial psychological effect that results from the mental and emotional reaction to the feeling of being helped

In the test conducted for “Stress and Health,” participants that had the cold injected into their nose had a noticeable - - -

Suppressed immune system

Mobilization of physiological resources

Body becomes temporarily vulnerable and then reaches by producing a fight-or-flight response

Coping/Resistance

Body spends resources to maintain energy during stressful events

Exhaustion

Body runs out of resources, panic sets in , and health declines

Resiliance

How we keep people from reaching exhaustion

Coping, control and self-efficacy, social relationships, dispositions and emotions, and stress management are all the -

Five main factors to influence peoples ability to bounce back after a negative or stressful event

Problem-focused coping

Actively addressing the problem that is the source of stress to try and fix it

Emotion-focused coping

Working to regulate the emotions that come from stress

Control

Feelings as if you can change the environment or your behavior

Social integration

The size of a person’s social network

Type A and Type B overal definition

Characterizations of one’s sense of urgency in life, either up-tight or laid-back