PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Junk Food

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Rebecca Kirchner

Document Summary

Often more damaging due to the unawareness of stress. A research exploring whether subjects are more prone to get a cold with more stress. Stress leads to depressed mood, low level of deep sleep. Internal locus of control (feeling you have control over the situation) Building up a good health can help manage stress. Through finding solutions of the problems, we reduce stress. Through making oneself feel better, one reduces stress. The ones with neuroticism are more prone to use negative strategies. Biopsychosocial model: views health as the outcome of biological, psychological, and social factors. Smoking is the most preventable lead of death in the u. s When you first start drinking affects your dependence on alcohol later in life. Junk food has effects on people"s cognitive intelligence. Not active people generally have lower health status. Minorities are under represented, less access to health services.