PSY-250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Malaria, Bubonic Plague, Quasi
29 Mar 2018
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Renaissance (1300s-1600s): disease was believed to be caused by cellular and organ pathology, there was a return to science and intellect, advances in microscopy and autopsy. 1800s: emergence of a strange neurological condition with no known biological cause, became known as hysteria since many people resorted to blaming a wandering uterus . Freud"s psychoanalytic approach (late 1800s): freud believed that some diseases, including hysteria, was the result of an unconscious conflict concerting into physical symptoms, hysteria became known as conversion disorder, proposed that conversion occurs via the voluntary nervous system. The biopsychosocial model: health and disease are consequences of the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors (keefe, 2011) 3: biological factors: genetic vulnerability, physiology (general functioning), Gender, age: social factors: socioeconomic status, social support, media, habits of family/peers, psychological factors: beliefs and attitudes, self-perception, optimism, Sunds (sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome): cdc findings: genes, stress, conflict, violent tv.
