PSY 154 Study Guide - Exam #4 Please use this guide as a means of helping you study for your upcoming exam in PSY 154.??It is NOT an exhaustive guide, but will point you toward the major topics you should know about.??Remember, for the majority of the exam you will be given scenarios that you will have to "dissect" (or analyze) in order to determine what concept is best being represented.??In order to answer such questions successfully you must know more than just definitions of terms.??You must know more about the concepts, too, and understand how to use or apply it to real examples! Keep this in mind as you prepare. Lesson 7:??Stress, Coping, and Health (Chapter 13) What is health psychology, and what is the focus of this branch of psychology? Health psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of illness as it relates to psychological factors Focus is on Discuss the mind-body connection.??Provide real-world examples of cases of mind-body connections that would interest health psychologists. Mind and Body Connection: What is the biopsychosocial model???Provide some real-world examples of how this model could be used to explain the development of illnesses. Biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors. What is stress???How do we know when a situation "qualifies" as stressful? Stress is the state induced by an envi ...
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