Health Psych. - CH.1 words

Question 1

what is Acute Disorders?

Answer 1

Acute disorders are short-term illnesses, often a result of a viral or bacterial invader and usually amenable to cure.

Question 2

what is Biomedical Model?

Answer 2

maintains that all illness can be explained on the basis of aberrant somatic bodily processes, such as biochemical imbalances or neurophysiological abnormalities.

Question 3

what is Biopsychosocial model?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

what is Chronic Illnesses?

Answer 4

Main contributors to disability and death, particularly in industrialized countries.

Question 5

what is Conversion Hysteria?

Answer 5

Specific unconscious conflicts can produce physical disturbances that symbolize repressed psychological conflicts.

Question 6

what is Correlational Research?

Answer 6

Which the health psychologist measures whether changes in one variable correspond with changes in another variable.

Question 7

what is Epidemiology?

Answer 7

Study of the frequency, distribution, and causes of infectious and noninfectious diseases in a population.

Question 8

what is Etiology?

Answer 8

Refers to the origins or causes of illness.

Question 9

what is Evidence-based Medicine?

Answer 9

Medical and psychological interventions go through rigorous testing and evaluation of their benefits, (usually through randomized clinical trials, before they become the standard of care.)

Question 10

what is Experiment?

Answer 10

Researcher creates two or more conditions that differ from each other in exact and predetermined ways.

Question 11

what is Health?

Answer 11

As “a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”

Question 12

what is Health Psychology?

Answer 12

To understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill.

Question 13

what is is Longitudinal Research?

Answer 13

In which the same people are observed at multiple points in time.

Question 14

what is Meta-Analysis?

Answer 14

Combines results from different studies to identify how strong the evidence is for particular research findings.

Question 15

what is Morbidity?

Answer 15

The number of cases of a disease that exist at some given point in time.
- [may be expressed as the number of new cases (incidence) or as the total number of existing cases (prevalence)].
- [Morbidity statistics, then, tell us how many people have what kinds of disorders at any given time.]

Question 16

what is Mortality?

Answer 16

To numbers of deaths due to particular causes.

Question 17

what is Prospective Research?

Answer 17

Looks forward in time to see how a group of people change, or how a relationship between two variables changes over time.

Question 18

what is Psychosomatic Medicine?

Answer 18

By offering profiles of particular disorders believed to be psychosomatic in origin, that is, caused by emotional conflicts.

Question 19

what is Randomized Clinical Trials?

Answer 19

Target treatment is compared against the existing standard of care or a placebo control, that is, an organically inert treatment.

Question 20

what is Retrospective Designs?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

what is a Theory?

Answer 21

A set of analytic statements that explain a set of phenomena, such as why people practice poor health behaviors.

Question 22

what is Wellness?

Answer 22

To refer to this optimum state of health.