PSYCH 4800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Meta-Analysis, Ambulatory Blood Pressure
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Pineal = where soul interacts bc not on both sides. Health psychology understanding psych influences on how ppl stay healthy, why ppl become ill, how ppl respond when they do get ill. Health psychologists focus on: health promotion/maintenance, prevention/treatment of illness, etiology (cause)/correlates (happen when u get sick) of health/illness/dysfunction, health care system and health policy. Health = complete state of physical/mental/social well-being, not just absence of disease (who 1948) Disease was believed to be: evil spirits entering body, result of the imbalance of blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, god"s punishment for evil-doing. Trepanation extraction of the stone of madness: hieronymus bosch. Psychoanalytic contributions: freud"s conversion hysteria: unconscious conflicts physical disturbances. Glove anesthesia no one nerve for the whole hand sudden loss of speech/hearing/sight/muscular paralysis/etc. Before germ theory = miasma (vapors from the river) Causes of death in us 1900: flu/pneumonia, tuberculosis, gastroenteritis = infectious disease.