Symptom perception model

Question 1

What is symptom perception?

Answer 1

It happens once a health issue has been developt, its perception of internal signals that may or may not be a signal of something bad
- Over sensitivity

Question 2

Is there individual differences to symptom perception?

Answer 2

Yes there is
- Personality traits
-Previous experiences, oneself or from others
- What the attention is at
- Context matters

Question 3

What is perception?

Answer 3

Making use of sensory information
- Weighs in earlier experience, interpretation and understanding

Question 4

What does the symptom perception model show?

Answer 4

How different factors can affect how one percieve a body signal
- Different components to it
- All these factors influence each others

Question 5

What affects our behaviour in symptom perception model?

Answer 5

• What we pay attention to in our body
  -How we appraise the signal, influence how we will act
• Coping strategies
• These are all affected by emotions, cognition and behaviorism ( what behavior will be punished and/or rewarded)

Question 6

How does the feedback influence the symptom perception model?

Answer 6

• The feedback take into account of the situation and consequences of behavior
  Example-doing a certain move gives you a sharp pain, thus you try to avoid doing that same move again

Question 7

Where could symptom perception come from?

Answer 7

A survival instict, searching for threats - according to evolutionary psychologist

Question 8

What can symptom perception model explain?

Answer 8

Why some people experience symptomsunrelated to disease and why some remain sick after triggers or causes are gone