Psychology 1000 Lecture 5: Chapter 5 - day 2

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-de Hoog

Document Summary

Receptors: free nerve endings in the skin: not located in the brain, bones, hair, nails, and nonliving parts of teeth. Types of pain: sharp/brief a-delta fiber, dull/throbbing - c fiber, 2 different pathways. Role of cognition on pain: negative thinking can lead to experiencing more pain, distraction of pain can help cope with pain, pain is a psychological phenomena, as well as a physical one. Gate control theory: ronald melzack and patrick wall in 1982: proposes that the experience of pain results from the opening and closing of gating mechanisms in the nervous system, the spinal cord can block feelings of pain. Biological: stimulation of nerve endings, endorphins reduce perception of pain. Psychological freud: pain in the absence of physical causes - psychosomatic disorders, personality, beliefs about ability to control pain internal locus of control, placebo effects. No pain no gain : cultural meaning of pain.