Michigan State University : Summer Term 1. Chapter 1 Health Psychology
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| 7278740 | absolute risk | a person's chance of developing a disease independent of any risk others may have | 0 | |
| 7278741 | Franz Alexander | worked with Dunbar studying influence of mind on health - psychosomatic medicine | 1 | |
| 7278742 | APA Division 38 | division of the American Psychological Association focused on health | 2 | |
| 7278743 | Ayurveda | Indian ancient medicine system focused on the body, sense organs, the mind, and the soul | 3 | |
| 7278744 | behavioral medicine | studies nonbiological influences on health | 4 | |
| 7278745 | biomedical approach | Western medicine approach - the state in which disease is absent | 5 | |
| 7278746 | context | the environment one is in | 6 | |
| 7278747 | correlation coefficient | the statistical measure of association with values closer to 1 signifying a stronger relationship | 7 | |
| 7278748 | culture | a dynamic yet stable set of goals, beliefs, and attitudes shared by a group of people | 8 | |
| 7278749 | Rene Descartes | French philosopher who later strengthened Greek idea of mind separation from the body | 9 | |
| 7278750 | Helen Flanders Dunbar | worked with Alexander to establish psychosomatic medicine | 10 | |
| 7278751 | epidemology | study of frequency, distribution, and causes of different diseases with a focus on physical/social environment | 11 | |
| 7278752 | experimental designs | helps determine causality through variable manipulation | 12 | |
| 7278753 | Sigmund Freud | first to draw attention to the possibility that illness could have psychological causes | 13 | |
| 7278754 | Galen | first pioneered the examination of the dead | 14 | |
| 7278755 | Health Psychology | an interdisciplinary sub specialty that promotes and maintains health and prevents and treats illness | 15 | |
| 7278756 | Hippocrates | explained sickness through the imbalance of four major bodily fluids | 16 | |
| 7278757 | independent variable | manipulates the variable thought to be important | 17 | |
| 7278758 | dependent variable | variable measured and influenced by the IV | 18 | |
| 7278759 | William James | wrote the first book in psychology, Principles of Psychology in 1897 - Harvard | 19 | |
| 7278760 | level of analysis | views of ourselves reside at different levels of conscious awareness | 20 | |
| 7278761 | morbidity | number of cases of a disease that exists at a given point in time | 21 | |
| 7278762 | mortality | number of deaths related to a specific course | 22 | |
| 7278763 | placebo | an inactive substance that appears similar to the experimental drug | 23 | |
| 7278764 | prevalence rates | the proportion of the population that has a particular disease at a particular time | 24 | |
| 7278765 | incidence rates | the frequency of new cases of the disease during a year | 25 | |
| 7278766 | prospective studies | following disease free participants over a period of time to predict cause variables | 26 | |
| 7278767 | retrospective studies | studying participants with a disease and tracing behaviors to determine cause | 27 | |
| 7278768 | psychosomatic medicine | studying the influences of mind on health | 28 | |
| 7278769 | quasi-experimental designs | experiments that utilize naturally occurring groups (imperfect) | 29 | |
| 7278770 | random, controlled, clinical trials | one group gets and experimental drug/intervention treatment and a second group unknowingly gets a placebo or nothing | 30 | |
| 7278771 | SES | defines cultural group, societal status | 31 | |
| 7278772 | Traditional Chinese Medicine | health is defined by the balance of Yin & Yang (hot & cold) | 32 | |
| 7278773 | WHO | World Health Organization | 33 |
