Psychology 2030A/B Chapter 14: Chapter/Lecture Fourteen (Final)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Exercise, eating, smoking) study how stress and health are related study which variables affect the onset and treatment of medical illnesses: health: a state of mental, social and physical well being, not just the absence of illness, behavioral medicine relation between behavioral and biomedical science, medical psychology the practice of psychology as it relates to health, illness, and medical treatment, biopsychosocial model: the mind, body and social environment all contribute to health, or the development of illness, opposed to the biomedical model which states that illness is purely biological. It wasn"t until sigmund freud and his book from 1891 stating that the mind could influence the body: he had patients with physical problems that there was no physical cause for the cause was mental, we would now call that conversion disorders (hysteria, all diseases are influenced by psychological factors, dualism is such that there are psychological problems from having physical problems and there are physical problems from having psychological disorders.