Health Psychology, 2nd Edition
30 BIOLOGICAL BASES OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS Conditions that can open and close the pain gate Conditions that open the gate Physic ...
Neuromatrix theory of pain Melzack (1999) extended his gate-control theory of pain during the 1980s and 1990s. The primary reaso ...
respiratory infectious illness. This is noteworthy given that historically these two realms were considered quite distinct (i.e. ...
T cells do not. It is also worth noting that there are a number of different kinds of T cells including T helper cells, natural ...
psychological stress, suffered as a result of adverse early experiences, is likely to increase people’s vulnerability to immune ...
virus (Cohen, 2005). Therefore, using a more complex study design, Cohen, Doyle and Skoner (1999) investigated whether psycholog ...
The results of the study showed that complete wound healing took an average of 9 days or 24 per cent longer in the caregiver gro ...
illness processes. Chapter 3 describes the key theoretical approaches to stress and evaluates the research evidence concerning t ...
38 BIOLOGICAL BASES OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS SAMPLE ESSAY TITLES To what extent can psychological factors influence health and ill ...
Fagundes, C.P., Glaser, R. and Kiecolt-Glaser, J.K. (2013). Stressful early life experiences and immune dysregulation across the ...
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Chapter 3 Stress theory and research research 3 CHAPTER PLAN Stress is widespread and media coverage suggests that it causes ill ...
WHAT IS STRESS? The increase in press and television coverage of stress over the last few decades has corresponded to a growth i ...
covering a general field of study. Within this field there are many diverse areas of research, which look at relationships betwe ...
46 STRESS AND HEALTH Hans Selye (1956) built on Cannon’s work and described a reaction pattern called the general adaptation syn ...
STRESS THEORY AND RESEARCH 47 and secondary appraisals (e.g. the extent to which an event is appraised as controllable). Generic ...
CONTEMPORARY PHYSIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO STRESS – ALLOSTATIC LOAD AND HEALTH Building on the work of Selye is an important conte ...
STRESS THEORY AND RESEARCH 49 Physiological response Repeated ‘hits’ Time Normal response repeated over time Physiological respo ...
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