PSYC 365 Chapter 1: 365 Ch 1 Health Psychology NOTE
16 Feb 2016
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In 1970s, the first term behavioral medicine was used to describe the relationship between psychology and health, stressing an integration of biomedical and behavioral approaches. Health psychology: the application of psychological principles to the diagnosis and treatment of illness as well as to people"s attempts to maintain health and well- being. Today, who espouses the same definition it presented in. 1946: health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity . From germ theory came the development of antibiotics to fight these germs. Miller identified non-compliance with medical regimens as an important problem. Today, we are more likely to use terms such as adherence or co-operation to describe people"s decisions to follow medical regimens. He explained non-compliance in terms of what he called a gradient of reinforcement. By this, he meant that the greater the lag time between behavior and reinforcement, the weaker the behavior will be.
