PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Health Belief Model, Health Professional, Mood Disorder
19 Feb 2014
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Positive people have better health in general. If negative, makes you more prone to illnesses such as depression: cultural differences. In some cultures, illness is considered a weakness. In china, india, and other asian countries, illness is not accepted, however, being really ill and having a lack of function is acceptable: situational factors. Sitting in a movie, you forget your aches and pains. If in a boring lecture, you are checking every ache and pain. They learn about diseases in depth and they experience it. They reflect and are hyposensitive to looking for these symptoms: stress, mood. Illness representation (or schema): a patients" own implicit common sense beliefs about their illnesses, what does this patient think about this disease, ex: ah, i just have the flu that person"s schema is different to the other person"s- Get the fuck away from me *puts on a mask.
