PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - Psoriasis, Group Psychotherapy, Gonorrhea
10 May 2013
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75 multiple choice, 25 marks for long answer. Final exam 50 m/c mostly from textbook chapters 11-15 - but long answer question from beginning of term - watch all of the videos, integrative question, one long answer have choice and from last few lectures. Introduction to health psychology straddles social personality, abnormal and physiological psychology - will see all three sub disciplines show up. 100 years ago, people were afflicted and dying of very different things than today - 100 years ago leading causes of death were pneumonia, influenza and tb. Now people dying from chronic disease - leading causes of death now are stroke, heart attack, cancer - which has links to behaviors and lifestyles in some cases. One of the differences because of this trend- illnesses now much longer duration now. 100 years ago those diseases tb, influenza short duration. Now people have chronic diseases that last many years - even cancer considered to be chronic.
