PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vise, World Health Organization, Demon
12 Dec 2015
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World health organization (who: 4 main functions: Give worldwide guidance in the field of health. Countries that cannot handle certain health problems, can visit other countries and learn. Cooperate with governments in strengthening national health programs. Develop and transfer appropriate health technology, information and standards. Etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction. Mind-body relationship (early times: early cultures believed that mind and body were a unit. Solved with trephination: drilling a hole through a person"s head. Mind-body relationship (the greeks: introduced the humoral theory: we have four essential fluids that dictate how we feel. Melancholic: disease occurs when there is an imbalance in fluids, personality types associated with dominant humoral variables, level of fluids in body correlate with mind and vise versa, 4 main temperaments occur when imbalance in fluids: Mind-body relationship (middle ages: problems solved with physical torture, religion infiltrates medical knowledge, level of health associated with faith. Mind-body relationship (renaissance: improvement in biotechnology:
