Download Chapter 1 What is Health Psychology | PSY 320 - Health Psychology and more Quizzes Health psychology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Health DEFINITION 1 Complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being TERM 2 Wellness DEFINITION 2 Optimum state of health TERM 3 Etiology DEFINITION 3 Origins or causes of illnessHealth psychologists focus:Etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction. TERM 4 Disease during prehistory.. DEFINITION 4 Considered to arise when evil spirits entered the body TERM 5 Humoral theory of illness.. DEFINITION 5 diseases resulted when the humors or circulating fluids of the body were out of balancepersonality types associated with the humors.. blood- passionate temperament black bile- sadness yellow bile- angry disposition phlegm- laid back approach to life TERM 6 Disease in Middle Ages.. DEFINITION 6 Gods punishment TERM 7 Renaissance to Present Day.. DEFINITION 7 Technical bases of medicine are understood dependent on lab findings and looked to bodily factors diagnosis-organic and cellular pathology TERM 8 Conversion Hysteria DEFINITION 8 Specific unconscious conflicts produce physical disturbances symbolizing repressed psychological conflictsSigmund FreudGave rise to psychosomatic medicine TERM 9 Psychosomatic Medicine DEFINITION 9 Specific illnesses are produced by people's internal conflictDunbar and Alexandar perpetuated this in their work linked patterns of personality to specific illnesses Criticism- conflict or personality type is not sufficient to produce illnessPsychosomatic medicine is an interdisciplinary medical field exploring the relationships among social, psychological, and behavioral factors on bodily processes and quality of life in humans and animals. TERM 10 Biopsychosocial Model DEFINITION 10 Health and illness are consequences of the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factorsAdvantages: maintains the macro/microlevel processes, continually interact to influence health and illness The biopsychosocial model is a general model or approach stating that biological, psychological (which entails thoughts, emotions, and behaviors), and social (socio-economical, socio-environmental, and cultural) factors, all play a significant role in human functioning in the context of disease or illness.
