PSYC 2301 Health Psyc Midterm Questions & Answers(RATED A)

Health psychology - ANSWERDevoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill Health - ANSWERThe World Health Organization defined ______________ as "a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" 1) to give worldwide guidance in the field of health 2) to set global standards for health 3) to cooperate with governments in strengthening national health programs 4) to develop and transfer appropriate health technology, information and standards - ANSWERThe WHO (World Health Organization) has 4 main functions. These are? 1) Health promotion and maintenance 2) Prevention and treatment of illness 3) Etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction 4) Impact of health professionals on people's behaviour and develop recommendations for improving health care - ANSWERHealth psychologists focus on? Etiology - ANSWERRefers to the origins or causes of illness A unit; disease arose when evil spirits entered the body and that these spirits could be exorcied through through the treatment process. They employed trephination, where they drilled small holes in the person's skill, believing that the evil spirits would leave the body while the "physician", or shaman, performed the treatment ritual - ANSWERIn the earliest times, it was believed that the mind and body were considered what? (also list how they would deal with illness) Humoral theory of illness; disease arises when the four circulating fluids of the body - blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm - are out of balance. The function of treatment is to restore balance among the humours. Specific personality types were believed to be associated with bodily temperaments in which one of the 4 humours predominated - ANSWERThe Greeks introduced what theory to the mind-body relatio