PSY 3635- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 125 pages long!)
1 Dec 2017
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What is health: medical model: absence of disease, health is not just about survival, but the ability to do what you want; overall wellness and strength goal of being a healthy person. Functional health: the ability to ably complete typical tasks of living . Demographic transition: caused by trends such as good hygiene, control of infectious disease; change in the structure of the population in terms of age distribution. Behavior is driving the diseases of ease: eating, exercise, smoking, drugs & alcohol, lack of sleep, social isolation, stress, depression, what is driving these behaviors, individual level causes, population level causes. Problem is exacerbated by the aging population; modern environment promotes behaviors that put us at risk for the diseases of ease. Vi: these frameworks reduce uncertainty which reduces anxiety; frameworks explain and guide. Science is a method, not a body of knowledge: we use explanations that have & have not been validated by the scientific method every day.
