PSYC 314 Chapter 1-9: Textbook Notes
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Health psychologists focus on: health promotion and maintenance, prevention and treatment of illness, etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction, analyze and attempt to improve the health care system and the formulation of health policy. The greeks were among the earliest civilizations to identify the role of bodily functioning in health and illness. Disease arises when the 4 circulating fluids of the body- blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm- are out of balance. Mysticism and demonology dominated concepts of disease, which was seen as. Flanders dunbar in 1930s --> specific illnesses are produced by individuals" internal conflicts. Disadvantage: impossible to determine the direction of causality unambiguously. Advantage: more adaptable than experiments, enabling us to study issues when the variables cannot be manipulated experimentally. Canada in 2006 on health services, an increase of more than 300% over the past 23 years: health habits usually develop in childhood and begin to stabilize around age.
