PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Biofeedback, Behavioural Sciences, Biology Of Depression
11 Oct 2012
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Health psychology-understanding psychological influences of how people stay healthy, why they get ill and how they respond to illness. World health organization (who) defines health as a state of complete physical mental and social well- being and not merely the absence of disease or infection. Who 4 main functions: to give world wide knowledge in field of health; to set global standards for health; to cooperate with governments in strengthening national health programs; to develop a transfer appropriate health technology, information and standards. Health psychologists focus on: health promotion and maintenance, prevention and treatment of illness, etiology and correlated of health, illness and dysfunction, improving the healthcare system and policy. Mind and body-early times: believed mind and body was a unit. Humoral theory (by greeks): four essential fluids: blood, black vile, yellow bile, and phlegm. Disease arose when unbalanced, personality types were associated with dominant humoral variables, aligns with mind- body urinary hypotheses.
