PSYC 314 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1, 3, 4, 5: Relaxation Technique, Psychopathology, Memory Consolidation
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Health psychology: devoted to understanding psychological influences on how ppl stay healthy, why they become ill, how they respond when they do get ill also promote interventions to help ppl stay well or get over illness. Health: complete state (achievement) of physical, mental, & social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (who) wellness. I(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t (cid:894)& i(cid:373)pro(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:895) of health i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)s & health professio(cid:374)als o(cid:374) ppl"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour. Maintenance & adherence behaviours (treatment adherence & discontinuation) Mind-body relationship: if mind & body operates as a single system, or two separate systems. Earliest times (stone age) mind & body were one: disease when evil spirits entered body, dug holes in skull (trephination) to allow evil spirits to leave body. Middle ages church = guardian of medical knowledge, supernatural explanations of illness (priests as physicians) Renaissance mind & body separate (dualism descartes) patient believing/trusting physician: changing physical pathologies & altering imagination to produce bodily change.
