Health Psychology, 2nd Edition

10 INTRODUCTION on health. These factors are said to ‘moderate’ the relationships between the en - vironment and an outcome such ...

INTRODUCTION 11 American Psychology Association Behaviour change Biopsychosocial model British Psychology Society Classical and ...

SAMPLE ESSAY TITLE Discuss the main theoretical concepts that underpin research and practice in health psychology today. FURTH ...

1 Biological bases of health and illness ...

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Biopsychosocial pathways to health and illness 2 CHAPTER PLAN In Chapter 1, we introduced health psychology as a discipline, the ...

WHAT IS THE BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE ON HEALTH AND ILLNESS? As outlined in Chapter 1, the biopsychosocial model postulates th ...

is the cerebral cortex (its outermost area). This is subdivided into the frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal lobes and con ...

the ANS and the endocrine system and, as we will see later in this chapter, it controls how individuals respond to stressful enc ...

The central nervous system (CNS) comprises the brain and spinal cord and is protected by bone. The brain is encased in the crani ...

The pituitary gland The pituitary gland is located just below the hypothalamus and is considered the ‘master’ gland because it r ...

LH) as well as stimulating lactation (through the release of oxytocin) and maintaining blood pressure (through the release of va ...

heart rate and mobilize glucose into the blood among other things. Collectively, adrenaline and noradrenaline (and dopamine) are ...

BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL PATHWAYS 23 THE STRESS RESPONSE What happens when you experience stress? Two systems are activated. The first an ...

24 BIOLOGICAL BASES OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS Stress Adrenal medulla Adrenal cortex Pituitary Adrenocorticotropic hormone Hypothalam ...

oxygen reaching the heart. In addition, this person may experience leg cramps because of lack of oxygen to the legs. However, mo ...

26 BIOLOGICAL BASES OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS behaviour and voice frequency and that a video analysis of the participant’s performan ...

BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF PAIN Psychological factors have been found to affect many different biological processes too numerous ...

at the same time provided a detailed description of the physiological mechanisms through which psychological factors could influ ...

When the activity of the transmission cells reaches a critical threshold level we experi - ence pain with greater pain intensity ...