PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Asthma, Biomedical Model
7 May 2019
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Chapter 1 personality theory: conversion hysteria (sigmund freud). Freud believed unconscious conflicts can produce physical healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they get ill. disturbances that symbolize the repressed psychological conflicts. Biopsychosical vs biomedical model? illness logically: biomedical model - maintains that all illnesses can be explained on the basis of aberrant somatic processes, such as biomedical imbalances or neurophysiological abnormalities. This model assumes that psychological and social processes are largely independent of the disease process. Emphasizes both health and illness hierarchically and that change in any level will effect change in all the other levels. Chapter 2 the scientific study of people many important bodily functions, including the response to and recovery from stress. down the heart rate as required. Also regulates blood vessel constriction and the rate of breathing. and acts antagonistically to the sympathetic nervous system.
