PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Emotional Contagion, Biofeedback, Glucocorticoid
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Body mass index: a statistic commonly used for estimating a healthy body weight given an individual"s height. Set point: a hypothesized mechanism that services to maintain body weight around a physiologically programmed level. Social: contagion: the often subtle, unintentional spreading of a behavior as a result of social interactions: most premature deaths are due to lifestyle factors. Smoking: 21% of all deaths in canada are due to smoking related illnesses. Efforts to prevent smoking: lawful banning of smoking, steep taxes applied to tobacco: reduces number of smokers, raises funds for health care and anti-smoking campaigns. Social factors: family: food advertisements- children who see food commercials while watching a 30- minute cartoon program consume 45% more snack food than other children who do not (10 pound difference per year) Being a target of discrimination is linked to increased blood pressure, heart rate, secretion of stress hormones which can harm physical health.
