Biomedical Model
HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What is the field of health psychology? Identify and explain three reasons why this field emerged.
The field of health psychology is a new division of the American Psychological Association (1978) that stated that health and illness are influenced by biology and psychological and social factors
It is focused on promoting and maintaining health as well as prevention of illnesses and treatment
The three reasons why this field emerged are:
Shift in causes of death in 1900’s and 2000’s
Shortcomings of Biomedical model
Rising healthcare costs
2. How is the bio-psycho-social model different from the biomedical model? Imagine that you were experiencing headaches, explain how your problem might be explained and treated by someone adhering to each model?
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How does health psychologists define stress?
Health psychologists define stress as the experience of major life events – stress is defined as the perception of lack of resources to deal or cop with these like events
17. How is stress measured using self-reports?
By using self-reports, stress can be measured by asking participants to report life events in a given time frame, such as negative or positive change, discomfort, or threats. An example of this would be the SRRS (Social Readjustment Rating Scale)
18. Compare and Contrast the SRRS and the LEDS measures.
The SRRS gathers the stress of different life events
The LEDS measures the stressfulness of individual life events in detail
The SRRS does not account for subjective experiences, whereas the LEDS accounts the subjective experiences
The SRRS has very vague terms on the scale, and focuses on middle and upper class people without any attention to people in
1. What is the field of health psychology? Identify and explain three reasons why this field emerged.
The field of health psychology is a new division of the American Psychological Association (1978) that stated that health and illness are influenced by biology and psychological and social factors
It is focused on promoting and maintaining health as well as prevention of illnesses and treatment
The three reasons why this field emerged are:
Shift in causes of death in 1900’s and 2000’s
Shortcomings of Biomedical model
Rising healthcare costs
2. How is the bio-psycho-social model different from the biomedical model? Imagine that you were experiencing headaches, explain how your problem might be explained and treated by someone adhering to each model?
The bio-psycho-social model …show more content…
How does health psychologists define stress?
Health psychologists define stress as the experience of major life events – stress is defined as the perception of lack of resources to deal or cop with these like events
17. How is stress measured using self-reports?
By using self-reports, stress can be measured by asking participants to report life events in a given time frame, such as negative or positive change, discomfort, or threats. An example of this would be the SRRS (Social Readjustment Rating Scale)
18. Compare and Contrast the SRRS and the LEDS measures.
The SRRS gathers the stress of different life events
The LEDS measures the stressfulness of individual life events in detail
The SRRS does not account for subjective experiences, whereas the LEDS accounts the subjective experiences
The SRRS has very vague terms on the scale, and focuses on middle and upper class people without any attention to people in