Warm Up

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Warm Up

• What was the James-Lange Theory?
• What was the Cannon Bard Theory?
• What was the Schacter Theory?
• What is a polygraph?
• What is Catharsis?
• What is the feel- good, do good Phenomenon?
• What is Subjective Well Being?

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What Makes you Stressed?
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Chapter 14 pt. 2 Stress and Health Continued

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Persistent Day to Day Stress May Lead to Burnout

• Burnout physical, emotional, and mental
  exhaustion brought on by persistent job-related
  stress.
• Often common in teachers, nurses, and police
  officers.

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Stress and Heart Disease

• Although relatively rare in 1900, by the 1950s
  coronary heart disease has become the leading
  cause of death in America.
• Coronary Heart Disease when vessels of heart
  are clogged which stops heart muscles from being
  nourished.
• Many behavioral factors help contribute to this
  disease but stress is also a major factor.

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Hopelessness and Heart Disease
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Personality Type and Heart Disease

• Type A Personality competitive, hard driving,
  impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone
  people.
• Type B Personality easy-going and relaxed
  people.
• Whose at greater risk for heart disease?

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Stress Related Illnesses

• Psychophysiological Illnesses mind-body
  illnesses. Physical illnesses caused by stress.
• Ex Hypertension and some headaches.
• Blood pressure also increased by too much stress.
  
• Are also referred to as Psychosomatic disorders.
  

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Somatoform Disorders (Not In Book)

• Somatoform Disorder illnesses where you have
  some physical symptoms without an apparent
  physical cause. Illnesses are said to be
  psychological in nature.
• Theories about causes of somatoform disorders are
  often rooted in psychoanalytic theory.
• Illnesses are often referred to as Hysteria.

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Examples of Somatoform Disorders

• Conversion when a person converts intense
  emotional difficulties into the loss of a
  specific physiological function.
• Ex blindness or paralysis without a physical
  cause.
• Symptoms often have sudden onsets, terminations,
  and reappearances.
• Behavior is unintentional and and outside of the
  conscious control of the patient.

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Examples of Somatoform Disorders

• Hypochondriasis is when a healthy person
  becomes preoccupied with imaginary ailments.
  Person is genuinely convinced they are ill.
• Often associated with OCD and anxiety disorders

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Examples of Somatoform Disorders

• Factitious Disorder an illness whose symptoms
  are either self-induced or falsified by the
  patient.
• Sometimes patients lie about disorder to get
  attention or sympathy others are often
  interested in receiving drugs or other benefits
  associated with the feigned illness.

Factitious Ulcer
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Fighting Disease With Immune System

• Lymphocytes
• Main defender against disease in immune system
  made up of two types of white blood cells.
• B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release
  antibodies that fight bacterial infections
• T lymphocytes form in the thymus and, among other
  duties, attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign
  substances

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Fighting Disease with Immune System

• Macrophage other agent of immune system which
  identifies, pursues, and ingests harmful invaders.

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Problems with Immune System

• Immune System can either react too strongly or
  under react to harmful bodies.
• Over-reaction causes body to attack its own
  tissues. Ex arthritis, allergies, lupus, M.S.
• Under-reaction causes harmful bodies to spread.
  Ex cancer
• Stress can divert energy away from the immune
  system making illnesses more likely.

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Conditioning the Immune System

• Experiments have been conducted illustrating
  power to condition the immune system to respond
  in certain ways.

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Negative Emotions in General Have Negative Health
Risks
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Promoting Health

• Aerobic Exercise has positive psychological and
  physical benefits.
• Increases heart and lung fitness and may also
  help alleviate depression and anxiety.

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Using Biofeedback to Improve Health

• Biofeedback system for electronically
  recording, amplifying, and feeding back
  information regarding a subtle physiological
  state like blood pressure and muscle tension.

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Promoting Health

• A strong social network which offers support
  strongly promotes health during an illness and
  when healthy.

with high support
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Promoting Health

• Spirituality and Faith Communities has a strong
  correlation with positive health and enhancing
  medical treatment.
• Possible reasons behind correlation with
  religion?

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Promoting Health

• Smoking is a lifestyle decision that offers
  serious health risks.

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Smoking and Stress
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Weight and Health Risks

• Review Biological Influences on Weight
• Body Chemistry influences?
• Hunger Hormones
• Hypothalamus issues
• Genetic Influences?
• Set Point
• Metabolism

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Weight and Discrimination

• When women applicants were made to look
  overweight, subjects were less willing to hire

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Long Term Weight Loss Is Difficult
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Correlation with TV and Obesity
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Overview of Healthy and Unhealthy Tendencies
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