Health Psychology Exam 1

The origins or causes of illness

Health and illness are consequences of the interplay of biological, psychological and social factors.

All illness can be explained on the basis of somatic bodily processes. Psychological and social processes are irrelevant to the disease process

Biomed assumes mind and body are separate Biomed also focuses on illness instead of promoting health

The practiciner must understand the social and psychological factors that contribute to illness in order to treat it properly.

Acute illnesses are short-term illnesses due to a viral or bacterial invader and usually curable. Chronic illnesses are slowly developing diseases that people live with for a long time and often can't be cured.

The study of the frequency, distribution and causes of infectious and noninfectious disease in a population based on physical and social environment

The number of cases of a disease that exists at some given point in time

Number of deaths due to particular cases

Experiments conducted by health practicioners to evaluate treatments or interventions and their effectiveness over time.

Looks forward in time to see how a group of people change over time.

Looks backward in time in an attempt to reconstruct the conditions that led to a current situation.

Consists of all the nerves in the body and is made up of the somatic and autonomic nervous systems.

Voluntary; connects nerve fibers to voluntary muscles and gives the brain feedback in the form of sensory information about voluntary movement

Involuntary; connects the central nervous system to all internal organs over which people do not have control. It is regulated by the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems.