Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Psychology, Delayed Gratification, Cognitive Restructuring

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Eric Collins

Document Summary

Learning objectives: define health psychology, outline how the field of health psychology evolved, explain why health psychology has grown so quickly, describe and apply fundamental theories in health psychology, careers and research in the field of health psychology. The birth of health psychology: changing profiles of illness and health in canada. Leading causes of death: 1900 - acute, infectious diseases, 1950-2000 - circulatory diseases, 2012 - cancers, heart disease, and stroke, psychologists" focus - preventability of diseases through lifestyle change, shit from focus on cure to prevention. Lifestyle change requires: learning new behaviours and unlearning old ones, believing one is capable of making the change. North american death rates in 1900: respiratory disease, tuberculosis, gastroenteritis, heart diseases, vascular lesions of the cns, chronic nephritis, all accidents, malignant neoplasms. Health psychology today: theoretical constructs: the biopsychosocial approach, encompasses three major perspectives on causes of health and illness, biological + psychological + sociological, demands communication among health care practitioners and social scientists.