PSY333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning, Disulfiram
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Health promotion: precess enabling people to increaser control over, and to imporove, their health. Good health is collective and personal individual: develop good health habits early in life and have them continue through adulthood. Medical practitioner: teach people how to acvhieve this lifestyle and help those at risk" teacher educator, educatoe about proper and good health habits to achieve optimal health. Psychologist: development of interventions to help people practice healthy behaviours and chage poor ones. Patterns of disease changed dramatically over the past 70 years. Perevalence of acute diseases has gone down but the preventable disorders have gone up. Approximately deaths in canada are caused by modifiable behaviours. Health behaviours are behaviours undertaken to enhance or maintain our health, becomes health habit, health related behaviour that is so well established that we perform it almost automatically. Habits develop in childhood and stabilize around 11 or 12. i. e wearing a seatbelt.
