Chapter 9: Physical Disorders and Health Psychology • psychosomatic medicine- psych factors affect physical function • behavioral medicine- applied to prevention‚ diagnosis and treatment of medical problems • health psychology- psych factors that are important to the maintenance and promotion of health o psych and social factors: • (1) affect biological processes • (2) long-standing behavior patterns put ppl at risk for certain disorders o 50% of deaths from top 10 leading causes in US can
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Chapter 1 Psychology in health and social care Key topics ll Relevance of studying psychology ll Schools of thought in psychology ll Psychology in practice: people and practice ll How to make effective use of this book ll Introducing the ‘psychosoap’ family Introduction Our purpose throughout this book is to offer ideas from psychology that can be applied to your work in health or social care. Our objectives are to enable you to: ll apply evidence-based
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Exam Notes: Chapter 1: Gerontology: study of aging form maturity through old age Agism: a form of discrimination against older adults based on their age Life-span perspective: Divides human development into two stages- Early phase: (childhood and adolescence) rapid age-related increases in peoples size and abilities Later phase: (young adulthood‚ middle age‚ and old age) change are slow‚ but abilities to continue to develop as people continue adapting to the environment. 4 key features:
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Chapter Five – Learning Learning – a relatively permanent change in behaviour (or behaviour potential) due to experience. Behaviours not dependent on learning Reflex action – a simple‚ automatic‚ involuntary response to a specific stimulus that comes directly from the nervous system and is basically the same each time it occurs. Fixed action pattern (FAP) – the innate predisposition – essentially identical among most members of a species – to behave in a certain way in response to a specific
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Course Name: PDN(HIV/AIDS) TITLE: 1. How will you determine the extent to shich your organization has been adversely affected by HIV Pandemic 2. Describe the strategy that you will recommend to your organization to ensure that there will be enough staff to run the organization over the next five years 3. The HIV epidemic will clearly erode the available skills and competencies in the organization 4. How would one know what the level of awareness is about the HIV epidemic in your organization 5
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1. How do convolutions of a human brain compare with those of a rat or dog brain? * they are nearly identical despite major differences in the brain’s internal structure * the human brain has many more convolutions * the lower animals have more convolutions and therefore fewer direct connections * human convolutions are less numerous‚ but larger * humans have frontal lobes‚ other animals do not 2. Bilateral symmetry... * is common in the animal
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PROFESSIONALISM IN THE WORKPLACE SEMINAR Sunday‚ 29 April 2012 8:00 am – 12:00 nn M.H. Del Pilar Campus‚ Valencia St.‚ Sta. Mesa‚ Manila The session is facilitated by Industrial Psychology Group. Target attendees for this Seminar are the Graduate School Students. Purpose The purpose of this workshop is to reinforce best practices as well as key concepts and skills that create a professional team and work environment. Objective At the end of this course‚ each participant will:
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Coping and Health: A Comparison of the Stress and Trauma Literatures Carolyn M. Aldwin and Loriena A. Yancura Dept. of Human and Community Development University of California‚ Davis Chapter prepared for P. P. Schnurr & B. L. Green (Eds.)‚ Physical Health Consequences of Exposure to Extreme Stress. Washington‚ DC: American Psychological Association. COPING AND HEALTH Even a cursory review of PsychLit reveals that well over 20‚000 articles on stress and coping processes have been published
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY Objective 1.1 Define psychology. Key Terms Psychology- scientific study of behavior and mental processes Exercises 1. Put a check mark by each statement that is true regarding psychology. _√____ Psychologists study human behavior. _√____ Psychologists study animal behavior. _ √___ Psychologists study emotions and mental processes. _____ Psychology and "common sense" lead to the same conclusions about behavior and mental processes. _____ Psychology is not
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY Objective 1.1 Define psychology. Psychology is defined as the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Key Terms psychology Exercises 1. Put a check mark by each statement that is true regarding psychology. ___X__ Psychologists study human behavior. ___X__ Psychologists study animal behavior. ___X__ Psychologists study emotions and mental processes. _____ Psychology and "common sense" lead to the same conclusions about behavior and mental processes
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