PSYC 323 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Allostatic Load, Sympathetic Nervous System, Limbic System
5 Oct 2016
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Standard biomedical model vs. expanded model of disease and. **treatment is a direct physical intervention can work without patient"s knowledge or assistance. 3 important interactions: pathogenic stimulus and person"s physiological and biochemical mechanisms, person"s psychosocial processes and sociocultural environment (people impact what"s going on in your mind affect body, treatment on disease state: person-environment interactions affect treatment outcome. Humans biological machines inhabited by a nonmechanical soul. Hinders ability to understand relationship with what"s happening between brain and our thoughts and feelings and what"s going on with our body. Hinders understanding relationship between mental existence and physical presence. Placebo an inert substance, something that doesn"t impact physical processing. Placebo effect your expectations about that inert substance can influence or change biochemical mechanism that alter your disease state. Elements of stress: stressor force threatening to normal equilibrium, stress resulting tension, stress-response compensation to avoid harmful effects of tension.
