PSY 120 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is Health Psychology? - Answers - Studies how the brain and your mind interacts
with your body to determine your health. How the condition of the body affects your
mind and vice versa
What is the biomedical model of disease? - Answers - Illness can be explained on the
basis of aberrant somatic bodily processes; psychological and social processes are
irrelevant to disease
What are the strengths of the biomedical model of disease? - Answers - 1. Dealing with
communicable diseases caused by bacteria or viruses
2. Surgery
3. Ameliorating symptoms of disease through drug therapies
4. Diagnosing diseases
What are the weaknesses of the biomedical model of disease? - Answers - 1.
Preventing people from getting diseases through drug therapies
2. Understanding environmental, social, and psychological contributions to disease and
disease risk
3. Changing health behaviors
4 main things health psychologists do: - Answers - 1. Health Promotion and
maintenance
2. prevention and treatment of illness
3. etiology and correlates of health illness
4. work with health care system and the formulation of health policy
How will the biopsychosocial model be helpful in understanding the health care
challenges of the 21st century? - Answers - - changing patterns of illness from
communicable illness to more chronic diseases influenced by a multitude of social,
biological and lifestyle factors
- advances in technology and research:
- role of Epidemiology in Health Psychology
- morbidity and mortality
- expanded health care services
- health care is the largest service industry in
the U.S.
Parasympathetic nervous system - Effects on body? When is it most active? - Answers -
"Rest and Digest" system. Let's the body know when to relax by slowing down heart
rate, lowering blood pressure, and aiding in digestion. Most active when there is nothing
stressful or life threatening, bring back to homeostasis to slow things down.
What is Health Psychology? - Answers - Studies how the brain and your mind interacts
with your body to determine your health. How the condition of the body affects your
mind and vice versa
What is the biomedical model of disease? - Answers - Illness can be explained on the
basis of aberrant somatic bodily processes; psychological and social processes are
irrelevant to disease
What are the strengths of the biomedical model of disease? - Answers - 1. Dealing with
communicable diseases caused by bacteria or viruses
2. Surgery
3. Ameliorating symptoms of disease through drug therapies
4. Diagnosing diseases
What are the weaknesses of the biomedical model of disease? - Answers - 1.
Preventing people from getting diseases through drug therapies
2. Understanding environmental, social, and psychological contributions to disease and
disease risk
3. Changing health behaviors
4 main things health psychologists do: - Answers - 1. Health Promotion and
maintenance
2. prevention and treatment of illness
3. etiology and correlates of health illness
4. work with health care system and the formulation of health policy
How will the biopsychosocial model be helpful in understanding the health care
challenges of the 21st century? - Answers - - changing patterns of illness from
communicable illness to more chronic diseases influenced by a multitude of social,
biological and lifestyle factors
- advances in technology and research:
- role of Epidemiology in Health Psychology
- morbidity and mortality
- expanded health care services
- health care is the largest service industry in
the U.S.
Parasympathetic nervous system - Effects on body? When is it most active? - Answers -
"Rest and Digest" system. Let's the body know when to relax by slowing down heart
rate, lowering blood pressure, and aiding in digestion. Most active when there is nothing
stressful or life threatening, bring back to homeostasis to slow things down.
