PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Coronary Artery Disease, Soltyrei, Cirrhosis
25 Mar 2017
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Discuss health and how to measure it. What is health: world health organization (1948): a complete state of physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence or infirmity. Location: smoking, alcohol consumption o, personality, age, gender, self-report, genetics. Mediator: mechanism or pathway that influences the relationship between variables. Any variable that influences the strength between variables: males and females differ in activities that influence their health. Three central catalysts to health psychology: the freudian revolution: psychoanalytic prediction that the mind and body are. Increase in public health facilities: an increase in the number of available treatments, specialists and facilities: placebo effects: increasing recognition that individuals get better without receiving any sort of treatment. Thinking you are receiving treatment can strongly influence behaviour. Textbook claims it is safe to say that health psychology is one of the most important developments within psychology in the past 50 years. Applicable to the real world in a variety of fields.
