PSYC 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eccrine Sweat Gland, Neal E. Miller, Delayed Gratification

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 365
• Professor: David Cox

Document Summary

Eccrine sweat glands in your hands and feet, only part of the body where there is not parasympathetic counterpart - sympathetic vs parasympathetic. Sweaty hands and feet = better grip. Type a constitution - time urgency is society forced. Most of what i was doing to become successful was killing me". So much money is used in reactive medicine - not preventative. Traced development of biomedical perspective on illness to the germ theory. Be bold in what you propose, be cautious in what you claim. Rodin & salovey )1989) focus on how people cope with all aspects of illness. Pni: study of the relationship between psychological state and immune system functioning (cohen & hebert, 1996) Same general tipics but expansion of approaches to study them. Research is continuing and field is still developing. Changing profiles of illness and health in canada. 2012: cancers, heart disease, stroke are the leading causes of death ( in that order)