PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Boogie 2Nite, Interpersonal Relationship

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Know the key terminology related to health psychology. Understand how genetic and environmental factors in uence obesity. Health psychologists study the positive and negative effects that humans" behaviour and decisions have on their health, survival, and well-being. One of the most widely studied health behaviours. Smoking cigarettes cause life-shortening health problems including lung, mouth, and throat cancer, heart disease. Lifestyle changes that students face during university affect physical health (increased food intake, decreased physical activity, and increased levels of alcohol consumption) Growing concern across canada, associated with numerous health consequences. Genetic, lifestyle, and social variables can affect weight. Genetics and body weight set point: a hypothesized mechanism that serves to maintain body weight around a physiologically programmed level. Studies suggest that genes account for between 50 - 90% of the variation in body weight, in uence body type, metabolism, and other physiological processes that contribute to body weight and size.