Intro To Psychology

Question 1

What is health psychology ?

Answer 1

About promoting health behaviours and preventing illness
About how people react with cope with/ recover from illness from a psychological POV

Question 2

Uses of psychology in medicine? (7)

Answer 2

• Behaviours change, motivational interviewing, psychotherapy
• improve communication between dr and pt
• reduce anxiety before surgery
• manage side effects in chronic illness
• modifying illness belief
• manage pain
• measuring Heath outcomes

Question 3

What is behaviourism ?

Answer 3

Everything we are is merely learnt
Nothing is innate
Concept of conditioning
Environmental factors influence behaviours

Question 4

What is developmental psychology?

Answer 4

The acquisition and changes in psychological processes from conception to old age

Question 5

What is social psychology?

Answer 5

Scientific study of how people are influenced by individuals, groups and society

Question 6

What is cognitive sociology?

Answer 6

Scientific study of basic mental abilities - perception, learning, memory language, problem-solving etc

Question 7

What is the biopsychosocial model?

Answer 7

Regards health as a combo of effects of biological processes; psychological processes and social factors
Biology - genetics, anatomy, physiology
Social factors - family, society, ethnicity etc
Psychology - anxiety, depression, illness beliefs

Question 8

What are health compromising behaviours?

Answer 8

Increases risk of disease or injury
- sedentary behaviours/exercise
- smoking
-diet
-alcohol
-low medication compliance

Question 9

What are health promoting behaviours?

Answer 9

• healthy eating
  -exercise
• managing chronic conditions
  -screening