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PSYCH 412: Health Psychology (VCU) Exam 1 Study Guide Solutions Health Psychology - ANSWER-Studies psychological influences on people How they stay healthy Why they become ill How they respond when they get ill Health - ANSWER-a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and no...

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PSYCH 412: Health Psychology (VCU)

Exam 1 Study Guide Solutions


Health Psychology - ANSWER✔✔-Studies psychological influences on people


How they stay healthy


Why they become ill


How they respond when they get ill


Health - ANSWER✔✔-a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the

absence of disease or infirmity


German origin "soundness of body"


"wellness" = optimum state of health


Etiology - ANSWER✔✔-Origins or causes of illness


Why health psychology developed - ANSWER✔✔-Help solve mysteries surrounding health


Biomedical model - ANSWER✔✔-All illnesses can be explained by aberrant somatic bodily processes


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Reduces illness to low-level processes


Fails to recognize social and psychological processes as


powerful influences over bodily estates


Assumes mind-body dualism


Emphasizes illness over health rather than focusing on


behaviors that promote health


Cannot address many puzzles that face practitioners


Biopsychosocial model - ANSWER✔✔-Considers biological, psychological, and social factors and their

complex interactions


Rejects dualistic biomedical model


Rejects view of the body as more "real" and worthy of more


attention


Rejects monistic/reductionistic view vs complex interactions


Need for health psychology - ANSWER✔✔-Increase in chronic or lifestyle related illnesses


Advances in technology and research

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Expanded health care services


Increased medical acceptance


Theory - ANSWER✔✔-Set of analytic statements that explain a set of phenomena


Provide guidelines for how to do research and interventions


Generate specific predictions that can be tested and


modified


Help tie together loose ends


Experiment - ANSWER✔✔-Characteristics include


2 conditions (treatment/control)


Iv and dv


Randomized assignment


Greater control (internal validity)


Can determine cause and effect


Limited generalizability




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