PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Walter Bradford Cannon, Sympathetic Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Daniel J Levitin

Document Summary

Set #6 (lectures 15, 16, 17 & 18) A quick overview of health psychology by dr. blaine ditto: health psychology is a growing field. A long past but a short history this is true for a lot of fields. Philosophers have been discussing psychological ideas for many years. The ideas surrounding health psychology have been around since antiquity. The idea that the mind can affect the body for good or ill has been around for a long time. Greek and roman medicine: there was this story about the early greek erasistratos, who sort of specialized in solving medical mysteries. Erasistratos was asked to come in and solve this mysterious case of a prince laying in his bed all the time. He wasn"t lazy but quite close to death. He spent a lot of time talking to people; trying to use good observation to know what was going on. There was some psychological cause to his illness.