 | Term | Definition |
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absolute risk |
a person's chance of developing a disease independent of any risk others may have |
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Franz Alexander |
worked with Dunbar studying influence of mind on health - psychosomatic medicine |
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APA Division 38 |
division of the American Psychological Association focused on health |
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Ayurveda |
Indian ancient medicine system focused on the body, sense organs, the mind, and the soul |
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behavioral medicine |
studies nonbiological influences on health |
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biomedical approach |
Western medicine approach - the state in which disease is absent |
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context |
the environment one is in |
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correlation coefficient |
the statistical measure of association with values closer to 1 signifying a stronger relationship |
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culture |
a dynamic yet stable set of goals, beliefs, and attitudes shared by a group of people |
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Rene Descartes |
French philosopher who later strengthened Greek idea of mind separation from the body |
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Helen Flanders Dunbar |
worked with Alexander to establish psychosomatic medicine |
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epidemology |
study of frequency, distribution, and causes of different diseases with a focus on physical/social environment |
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experimental designs |
helps determine causality through variable manipulation |
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Sigmund Freud |
first to draw attention to the possibility that illness could have psychological causes |
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Galen |
first pioneered the examination of the dead |
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Health Psychology |
an interdisciplinary sub specialty that promotes and maintains health and prevents and treats illness |
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Hippocrates |
explained sickness through the imbalance of four major bodily fluids |
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independent variable |
manipulates the variable thought to be important |
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dependent variable |
variable measured and influenced by the IV |
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William James |
wrote the first book in psychology, Principles of Psychology in 1897 - Harvard |
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level of analysis |
views of ourselves reside at different levels of conscious awareness |
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morbidity |
number of cases of a disease that exists at a given point in time |
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mortality |
number of deaths related to a specific course |
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placebo |
an inactive substance that appears similar to the experimental drug |
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prevalence rates |
the proportion of the population that has a particular disease at a particular time |
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incidence rates |
the frequency of new cases of the disease during a year |
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prospective studies |
following disease free participants over a period of time to predict cause variables |
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retrospective studies |
studying participants with a disease and tracing behaviors to determine cause |
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psychosomatic medicine |
studying the influences of mind on health |
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quasi-experimental designs |
experiments that utilize naturally occurring groups (imperfect) |
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random, controlled, clinical trials |
one group gets and experimental drug/intervention treatment and a second group unknowingly gets a placebo or nothing |
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SES |
defines cultural group, societal status |
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Traditional Chinese Medicine |
health is defined by the balance of Yin & Yang (hot & cold) |
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WHO |
World Health Organization |
