PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biofeedback, Psychosomatic Medicine, Behavioural Sciences
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Overview: change in societal views, biopsychosocial model of health. What is health psychology: health psychology is understanding psychological influences on, how people stay healthy, why people get ill, how they respond to illness. Health psychologist focus on: health promotion and maintenance, prevention and treatment of illness, etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction, where is the disease coming from, what are the aspects, etc. Mind-body relationship the greeks the greeks introduced the humoral theory of illness: four essential fluids; blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm. When things are not right, there is a change in the body: disease arose when there was imbalance within the fluids, personality types were associated with dominant humoral variables. Temperaments were related to levels of the fluids: aligns with mind-body unitary hypothesis. 4 main temperaments: phlegmatic, choloric, sanguine, melancholic. Ability to see beyond our eyes - microscope: autopsy (morgagni)