Health Psychology Syllabus Week 01 19 2012 Must come to class notes are not posted on sakai Must sit in the last 5 rows of class to use laptop What is health psychology Applying psychology to the medical field The science that o Describes o Predicts o Explains o AND It is the profession that Contact with instructor Office hours Email Periodic evaluations 7 pages MAXIMUM Heath Psych Project Applies this knowledge to practical problems All handouts can show up on exam syllabus health tree handouts articles Exam 1 Chapter 1 01 19 2012 Read Chapter 1 and 2 for next class What is health Hard to define without considering DISEASE Health The Home Movie A few words from our sponsors o Zeitgeist o Ortgeist spirit of the times spirit of the place what are the thoughts of the state you find yourself in the culture you find yourself in o influence way science develops Culture Prehistoric 10 000 B C E The thoughts were that illness was caused by evil spirits Entered from the outside and endangered your health Drill a hole in the head release the evil spirit possible cure however you may die because of this treatment Babylonians and Assyrians 1800 1700 B C E Disease and illness come from daemons and punishment from Gods Treatment in the form of sorcery primitive forms of surgery Ancient Hebrews 1000 300 B C E Disease is a punishment of God Good health is a gift from God Prescription live a good life Ancient Greece 500 B C E Hippocrates o Prognosis forecast of the course of the disease o The father of medicine o Takes a pause from the angry God when it comes to medicine o Puts forward an idea of balance moderation o Steps away from superstition o Carefully notes the symptoms of his patients symptoms o Sits down with his patients and LISTENS o One of the first to actually write down symptoms started the idea of examining a patient listening to heartbeat ect o Prescribed non invasive treatments baths massage dietary intervention some drugs from other countries Humoral Theory of Illness o BALANCE o A healthy body has equilibrium o Humors 4 of them fluids Blood Sanguine Yellow Bile Choleric Black Bile Melancholic Phlegm Phlegmatic o If some of these humors are out of balance they will not only effect the body but the mind o Blood relates to energy too much blood results in vulnerability in epilepsy arthritis blood leading enemas cool baths can relieve it o Too much yellow bile can result in anger treatment blood leading cooling baths enemas o Black bile in excess vulnerable to depression hepatitis treatment special diet hot baths drugs to induce vomiting Humors to Hormones A theme emerges Balance Greece China Rome The human body searches for balance and is best and most healthy when it has achieved balance Illness what thought to be caused by unbalance force of nature o Fire earth metals Treatment o Acupuncture and others Galen in Ancient Rome 130 C E 200 C E A physician in ancient Rome Makes huge contributions to the study of medicine The study of the place helps Galen a great deal Begins dissecting animals to get a better grasp on the concept of human Autopsy find evidence of hypothesis and find a scientific approach to the health study of health Expanded humoral theory of illness Drug based treatment Diagnosis identification of a disease based on the signs and symptoms are We are now able to cure a disease thanks to Galen due to diagnosis and the right drug And then Fall of Rome Middle Ages Renaissance Early Christians 300 C E 600 C E o Illness was the sign of God s wrath o Illness is now a sign that God has chosen you Descartes in France 1596 1650 Devises a new way of thinking about the human body Human body machine o Mechanical o Physical mechanic o The unscientific mind is pushed off the scientific body is reserved for Believed in not disturbing the church s blessing Mind Body Dualism medicine o Allows us to better understand our body Microscope o Anton van Leeuwenhoek Invented the microscope First to observe blood cells o Robert Hooke Invented the microscope First to observe cells little rooms Observed them in plants Late 1800 s Virchow in Germany o Outlines a cellular series of disease o Health can be endangered by microscopic organisms that invade the Freud in Austria cells mind o The idea that health is influenced by emotions and influenced by the o His hypotheses spawns the field a psychosomatic medicine World Health Organization 1946 The state of complete physical mental and social well being o anything less than complete can mean that you are not healthy health needs to take into account more than just physical state of being and needs to take into account your social well being o very complicated Exam 1 Chapter 2 01 19 2012 How to read a journal article in Social Psychology Jordan and Zanna 1999 Are all articles created equal Are all articles the same Peer review are required for a journal article to be published Might find a review article or theoretical article o Review articles are opinion based 3 types of articles o research report article o Anatomy of a research report o Title and abstract Basic understanding of what they article is about You wont know enough to be able to answer questions Not sufficient enough o Introduction General understanding Have a sense of the overall hypotheses Include the background history o Method How the conducted the experiment Who did the experiment What materials were used Need to know how they operationally define satisfaction Who do they represent How was the sample represented o Results Written in 2 languages Statistical Numbers and sentences A law in APA style that states in a well written result section we must restate what we wrote in statistical language in clear How are we measuring things interpreted in the results simply English section Help you to understand comparisons that were made and the prediction outcomes No bias in the results section o Discussion The rule is you cant talk about anything that you already brought up Interpret what you have written in the results section Danger of just reading this section you are allowed to interpret You get hopefully a compelling answer to the question that was what happened presented in the intro Suggestions are present on what to do next Words of advice questions o Suggests to break down each section into small sections with o Taking notes as you go o They warn you against 2 errors Too critical readers Too accepting readers o Question how they measure things o Question if these people