Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Immunocompetence, Psychoneuroimmunology, Delayed Gratification

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Yves Bureau

Document Summary

Psychological, sociological and environmental consequences have been seen to be associated with ill health. 1970s: psychological principles applied to understand and improve health and health care o. Psychologists from non-clinical sub disciplines began to recognize the many ways psychological principles could be applied to health and health care o. Emergence of fields of behavioural medicine and health psychology. Behavioural medicine: a branch of medicine concerned with the relationship between health and behaviour o o. This is to say that what you do influences health. Health psychology (1980): o the application of psychological principles to the diagnosis and treatment of illness as well as to people"s attempts to maintain health and well-being o. Prominent topics in the field"s development: behaviourism (n. miller, cognition and personality (krantz, coping styles (s. miller, psychoneuroimmunology (cohen & hebert) Traced development of biomedical perspective on illness to the germ theory. Germ theory: the discovery that many illnesses are caused by the activity of microorganisms o.