Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Reductionism, Graduate School, Participaction

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

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Learning objectives: describe and define health psychology, understand how our view of the mind-body relationship has changed over time, explain the biopsychosocial model of health. Identify why the field of health psychology is needed: relate the purpose of health psychology training, adam: athlete since he was young, always took care of his health. He is interested in health psychology for his career. His roommate, greg, always smoked, ate junk food everyday and got drunk often. What is health psychology: understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill, promote interventions to help people stay well or get over illness. Disease arose when evil spirits enter and those spirits could be exorcised through treatment: stone age skulls with small holes: made with sharp stone tools trephination. Imagination and emotions were seen as connection with god of the physician: 1600 (cid:1005)(cid:1011)(cid:1004)(cid:1004): des(cid:272)artes" perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e takes hold.