PSYC 307- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Who expands their definition of health to include more than physical body, but mental. Shift away from biomedical model of health to embrace additional model in which mental. Behaviour also contributing source to illness: ex leaving food out, refusal to vaccinate. Health psychology, 1973-1980; application of previously existing principles to new field and research, with the goal of promoting health and taking preventative measures/treatments. Health psych becomes relevant as mental health becomes more of an issue, people live longer, chronic illness arises and social health, health plays a greater role. Biomedical model when medicine becomes a scientific study,not an art form/ witchcraft. Illness is a physical change on the biomedical model due to microbes, injury, exposure (ex chemicals) The body is a machine that can work or be defected philosophical roots in descartes; distinction between brain and mind which interact.
