[PSY BEH 103H] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (30 pages long)
29 Nov 2016
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Jan 19: homework 1 and 2 are due. Jan 26: homework 3 and 4 are due. Jan 19 or jan 21: sign up for posters. Q:the united states rank in the top 10 countries in the world in terms of life expectancy. A: false (bc of things like obesity, lack of adequate access to health care, high stressetc. ) United states has about 5 years less than the country with the highest life expectancy: japan. Illness wellness continuum (we look at health as a continuum) Mind body relationship: a brief history of illness body: physical being (bones, neurons) mind: thoughts, emotions and perceptions. There was a real focus on the body. 20th century: psychosomatic medicine: these disorders are caused by emotional conflicts, limited to certain disease such as asthma, biomedical model vs. biopsychosocial model, biomedical (older): all illness has a biomedical cause. Illness is based on an organ not functioning right or biochemicals in the body being out of balance.
