Mind-Body, Health Research, and Epidemiology

Vocabulary flashcards covering mind-body history, social risk factors, health research propositions, and epidemiology based on class notes.

Cannon (1932)

Associated emotions with physiological changes and introduced the concept of the fight or flight reaction.

Dunbar (1943)

Proposed that habitual response can be related to specific disease.

Alexander (1950)

Identified 7 psychosomatic illnesses in the history of mind-body research.

Risk (Social Factors)

Defined within social factors as something we can monitor.

Measurement gradient

A proposition about health research noting that some things are easy to measure (e.g., weight) while others are hard to measure (e.g., happiness).

Limits of experiments

A health research consideration concerning long-term effects and durability.

Epidemiology

The study covering morbidity vs mortality, natural history of disease, pathogenesis, risk factors, and protective factors.

Pathogenesis

A primary component of epidemiology studied alongside natural history of disease, risk factors, and protective factors.

Biomedical vs. Psychosocial

Contrasting frameworks in health evaluation, noted alongside biobehavioral approaches, reliability, and validity.