Health Psychology, 2nd Edition

38 BIOLOGICAL BASES OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS

SAMPLE ESSAY TITLES

• To what extent can psychological factors influence health and illness processes?


• Cognitive, emotional and social factors affect pain. Discuss this statement with
  reference to recent psychological theory.


• Social and psychological factors are linked to susceptibility and respiratory infectious
  illness. Discuss.


• What are the pathways through which stress can alter immune functioning?

FURTHER READING

Books

Contrada, R.J., and Baum, A. (2011). Handbook of Stress Science: Psychology, Biology and Health.
New York: Springer.

Flor, H. and Turk, D.C. (2011). Chronic Pain: An Integrated Biobehavioral Perspective. Seattle, WA:
IASP Press.

Kalat, J.W. (2009). Biological Psychology. New York: Thomson Wadsworth.

Vedhara, K. and Irwin, M. (2005). Human Psychoneuroimmunology. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.

Journal articles

Cohen, S. (2005). The Pittsburgh common cold studies: Psychosocial predictors of susceptibility
to respiratory infectious illness. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 12, 123–131.

• Antibody-mediated
  immunity


• Autonomic nervous
  system


• Cardiovascular
  system


• Cell-mediated
  immunity


• Central nervous
  system


• Endocrine system


• Gate-control
  theory
  
  
  • Hypothalamic–
    pituitary–adrenal
    (HPA) axis response
    system
  
  
  • Limbic system
  
  
  • Neuromatrix theory
    of pain
  
  
  • Parasympathetic
    nervous system
  
  
  • Peripheral nervous
    system
  
  
  • Psychoneuro -
    immunology
    
    
    • Psychophysiological
      pathways
    
    
    • Somatic nervous
      system
    
    
    • Sympathetic adrenal
      medullary (SAM)
      response system
    
    
    • Sympathetic nervous
      system
    
    
    • Trier Social Stress
      Test
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMS