01:830:377 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cortisol, Suggestibility, Neuroticism

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:377
• Professor: Richard J.Contrada

Document Summary

I do not guarantee that it identifies 100% of the material that will be on the exam. But the guide should help you to focus your review: the guide will likely be revised after the first version is posted. Be alert to announcements of the posting of new versions. Thought they could stop it if they found the one germ: no way to: Prevent infection cure: infection often fatal without cure, eventually controlled by: Public health advances: safer food, waste, waste management, working conditions. Medical advances: diagnosis, prevention (vaccines), treatment, chronic diseases, develop slowly, persist, recur over long time period, come and go, often degenerative, often can be controlled but not cured, multiple determinants include: Specific(lifestyle) behavioral/psychosocial factors: smoking, diet, exercise, stress -> stress. Chronic disease: biomedical model, disease is organic, single cause, health is the absence of disease, biopsychosocial model. Involves whole person: multiple causes, health is more than the absences of disease, formed the basis of health psychology.