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Aetiology

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Cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of a disease or condition

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Health psychology

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Is devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill and how they respond when they do get ill

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Trephination

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Involved drilling holes in this skulls of the diseased individual to allow the evil spirits to escape.

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Humoural theory of illness

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Asserts that disease is caused by an imbalance in the four fluids or humours of the body. Blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile.

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Cartesian dualism

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Contends that the mind and the body a completely separate entities.

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Cellular theory of illness

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The idea that illness and disease result from abnormalities within individual cells

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Biomedical model of health

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Takes a reductionist view of illness, reducing disease to biological causes at the level of individual cells.

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Psychosomatic medicine

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The idea that changes in physiology mediate the relationship between unconscious conflicts and illness

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Biopsychosocial model of health

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The idea that health and illness stem from a combination of biological, psychological and social factors.

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Health belief model

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Suggested health behaviours are predicted by four factors: the perceived susceptibility to the health threat, the perceived seriousness of the health threat, the benefits and barriers of undertaking particular health behaviours, and cues to action.

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Perceived susceptibility

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Refers to a persons perception that he is likely to contract a particular illness.

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Optimistic bias

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By which they believe that they are far less likely than other people to contract particular illnesses

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Perceived seriousness or severity

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Refers to an individual’s perception of the impact a particular illness would have on her life

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Benefits and barriers of health behaviour

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People evaluate whether the benefits to be gained from stopping the behaviour outweigh the costs or barriers associated with termination of the behaviour

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Cues to action

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Referred to ancillary factors that influence whether or not the person is willing to begin a healthy behaviour or terminate an unhealthy one

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Self-efficacy

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A person’s belief in her ability to successfully undertake a particular action or behaviour

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Protection motivation theory of health

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Basically the health belief model plus self-efficacy

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Theory of reasoned action

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Takes a social cognitive view towards health behaviours, broadly stating that behaviousr stem from behavioural intentions.

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Attitudes

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Represent the beliefs one has that particular behaviour will produce a particular outcome and ones evaluation of those outcomes

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Subjective norms

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Reflects someone’s perception of how significant other individuals will view the behaviour and the motivation to comply with the desires of those others.

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Theory of planned behaviour

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Includes all the components of the theory of reasoned action plus self-efficacy, sometimes referred to as perceived behavioural control

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Body mass index (BMI)

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The weight in kilograms divided by the height in metres squared: kg/m2

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Obesity

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Refers to an excessive accumulation of body fat, in excess of 30% in women and 20% in men

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Overweight

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People identified as being overweight if they have a body mass index between 25% and 30%, depending on gender and age

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Set point for weight

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An ideal body weight for each individual

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Susceptible gene hypothesis

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Suggests that certain genes increase the likelihood of, but do not guarantee, the development of a particular trait or characteristics e.g. obesity

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Alcoholism

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A person is identified as having alcoholism when he or she is physiologically dependent upon alcohol, and, therefore, shows withdrawal symptoms when no alcohol has been consumed.

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Problem drinking

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Problem drinkers are not physiologically addicted to alcohol, but still have a number of problems stemming from alcohol consumption, including problems with work and family, and health related complications

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Self handicapping

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The process by which people set themselves up to fail

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Spontaneous remission

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Quitting drinking or greatly reducing your alcohol intake on your own, without formal method of intervention

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Detoxification

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The process of drying out from alcohol

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Aversion therapy

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Introduction of something aversive as a means of discouraging the negative health habit

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Stress

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Refers to a challenge to the person’s capacity to adapt to inner and outer demands

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General adaptation syndrome

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A bodily response consisting of three stages: alarm, resistance and exhaustion.

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Alarm

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Involves the release of adrenaline in the hormones such as cortisol as well as the activation of the sympathetic nervous system

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Resistance

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The parasympathetic nervous system returns respiration and heartbreak to normal. However blood glucose levels remain high and some stress-related hormones continue to circulate at elevated levels

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Exhaustion

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Physiological defenses breakdown, resulting in greatly increased vulnerability too serious or even life-threatening disease.

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Transactional model of stress

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Stress is typically a transaction between the individual and the environment, rather than a property of either the person or the environment alone. Lazarus

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Primary appraisal

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In a primary appraisal of the situation, the person decides whether the situation is benign, stressful or irrelevant.

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Secondary appraisal

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In the second stage the person evaluates the options and decides how to respond

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Emotional forecasting

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Predicting what feelings the situation will produce (primary appraisal) and predicting the likely emotional impact of each potential response (secondary appraisal).

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Lazarus’ three types of stress

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One. Harm or loss.
Two. Threat
Three. Challenge.

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Stressors

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Events that lead to stress. Stressors range from the infrequent, such as the death of a parent, to commonplace, such as a demanding job or a noisy neighbour.

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Acculturative stress

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Refers to the stress people experience in trying to adapt to the new culture

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Catastrophes

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Stressors of massive proportions. Catastrophe is maybe caused by nature or by humans

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Daily hassles

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Minor annoyances of everyday life that contribute to stress

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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Examines the influence of psychological factors on the functioning of the immune system

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Immune system

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The bodies surveillance and security system, which detects and eliminates disease causing agents and the body such as bacteria and viruses

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Antibodies

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Protein molecules that attach themselves to foreign invaders and mark them for destruction

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Type A behaviour pattern

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A personality style categorised by impatience, ambition, competitiveness, hostility and a hard driving approach to life

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Type B behaviour pattern

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More relaxed, easy-going and less easily angered.

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Coping or coping mechanisms

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Residents in the face of stress reveals the ways people deal with stressful situations

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Problem focused coping

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Strategies aimed at changing situation producing stress

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Emotion focused coping

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Efforts to alter thoughts about the situation, and efforts to later the unpleasant emotional consequences of stress

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Low-effort syndrome

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The tendency to exert minimal effort to escape stressful social and economic circumstances

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