PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Binge Eating, Socioeconomic Status, Bulimia Nervosa
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Healthy psychology: focuses on the events that affect physical well-being, and applies psychological principles to the understanding of health and well-being. Well-being: a positive state that includes striving for optimal health and life satisfaction. Psychological, biological and social conditions affect health and illness. Biophsychosocial model is central to understanding the difference between the traditional medical model, where the individual is passive and approach taken by health psychologists in which individual"s thoughts, feeling and behaviour are central to understanding health. Placebo effect: a drug or treatment, unrelated to the particular problem of the person who receives it, may make the person feel better because the person believes the drug or treatment is effective. Role of anxiety, experience of pain (if people believe that it will help it may) Stress: a pattern of behavioural, psychological, and physiological responses to events that match or exceed an organism"s abilities to respond. Eustress watching a scary movie, roller coasters etc. , distress negative events.
