Psychology 2036A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Psychoneuroimmunology, Digestion, Bronchus
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Clinical psychologists have long recognized that there are psychological consequences associated with ill health, as well as physical consequences associated with many psychological disorders. Behavioural medicine: a branch of medicine concerned with the relationship between health and behaviour. Health psychology: 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. Psychosomatic medicine: approach in which a particular medical complaint is viewed as being the result of an underlying chronic emotional conflict that ultimately surfaces in the form of physiological symptoms. Germ theory: the discovery that many illnesses are caused by the activity of micro-organisms, such as bacteria (neal miller) Gradient of reinforcement: the gradual weakening of a behaviour the further it gets in time from the reinforcement of that behaviour. Delayed gratification: term used by behaviourists to describe a situation in which there is a time lag between a behaviour and its reinforcement.