PSYC 3170 Chapter 1: chap 1

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3170
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Health psychology: understanding psychological influences and how ppl stay healthy, why they become ill, how they react to getting ill. Health definition: (cid:272)o(cid:373)plete state of physi(cid:272)al, (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal a(cid:374)d so(cid:272)ial (cid:449)ell-being not merely the absence of infirmity, so(cid:373)e use (cid:858)(cid:859)(cid:449)ell(cid:374)ess(cid:859)(cid:859) i(cid:374)stead. Health psychologists focus on: health promotion and maintenance, prevention and treatment, etiology, correlates of health, illness, dysfunction. Etiology -is origins that cause illness: tend to look at social factors, and states of (cid:373)i(cid:374)d to deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e ill(cid:374)ess(cid:859) (cid:272)ause. Also ha(cid:271)its a(cid:374)d lear(cid:374)ed a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ities: develop recommendations to improve health care and promotion. Early philosophers: evil spirits cause of disease. Greeks: bodily functions to attribute health: hippocrates/galen: disease caused by bodily factors, which also impact on mind. Morgannis 1682- autopsy and rejection of humoral theory of illness. Unconscious conflicts produce psychological disturbances: psychosomatic medicine. Dunbar/alexander: linked patterns of personality to specific conflicts and illness. Conflicts produce anxiety; takes physiological toll on body via autonomic nervous system.