PSYCH 10 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tetanus, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Speech Recognition
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Understand the key components of the biopsychosocial model and why health psychologists use it. Health is an outcome of intricate interactions of Know how the common causes of death have changed in the last 100 years. Pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, tetanus, typhus, smallpox, malaria, Heart disease, cancer, lung disease, stroke, diabetes, liver disease. More like things used to kill us that we have medicines (the flu) -> now the issue is that the most common causes of death that come from behavior. Know the specific hormones and neurotransmitters that are involved in each step of the stress response. Phase 1: the (cid:858)fight o(cid:396) flight(cid:863) sympathetic nervous system responds, reducing pain and increasing the heart rate-> core of the adrenal glands produces norepinephrine and epinephrine (adrenaline) identified by gives us energy to act. Understand general adaptation syndrome and who is responsible for the theory. General adaptation syndrome (gas) identified by hans selye: our stress response system defends, then fatigues.
