PSYC 3390 Study Guide - Final Guide: Behavioral Medicine, Adrenal Gland, Muscle Atrophy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Meghan Mc Murtry

Document Summary

Psychosocial factors can have a strong influence on the etiology and (cid:1) treatment of physical disorders. Stress due to economic uncertainty as a principle cause for plummeting ages of life expectancy (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Knowledge derived from behavioral science is applied to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical problems. Psychological factors that are important to the promotion and maintenance of healthy as well as recommend improvements to healthy policy and the health care system. By affecting the basic biological processes that lead to illness and disease: ex. stress. And due to the fact that long standing behavioral patterns can put people at risk for developing certain disorders: ex. smoking, unprotected sex. The nature of stress: rats being injected with a chemical or saline both developed ulcers due to stress of injections, general adaptation syndrome (gas)