Health ministry of republic of moldova the university of medicine and pharmacy nicolae testemiţanu

Cognitive Psychology.
 
Psychological school concerned with the 
way the mind processes information. The most recent psychological 
school that seeks to find out what kinds of thought processes go on in 
the mind. It represents a resurgence of interest in the earliest area of 
emphasis in psychology, the study of consciousness. Today’s cognitive 
psychologists, however, study consciousness in a much more carefully 
controlled, objective, scientific way. They see people as actively enga-
ged in information processing. 
 
3. Medical psychology 
The medical psychology is a subfield of psychology that interfaces 
with medicine, is focused on doctor-patient relationship, patient’s attitu-
de toward the disease and the health problem. Medical psychology is 
related with psychopathology, psychiatry, sociology, social psychology, 
neurophysiology, etc. 
Postulates of medical psychology.
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importance of individuality and individualization; 
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there are also personality particularities not only somatic ones; 

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there are not diseases besides the patients with their individual 
particularities. Important for the recovery is sometimes to fight against 
the disease, sometimes to modify individual particularities. 
Individual particularities result from the interaction of hereditary 
and environmental factors. 
From the perspective of 
bio-psycho-social model
of disorders 
interpretation: 
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human beings are the product of hereditary and environmental 
factors;
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diseases are seen in context with the patient and his environ-
ment, not as independent entities; 
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the aim of medical psychology is to construct a genuine thera-
peutic relationship between doctor and patient; 
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Any doctor should have not only medical knowledge, but also 
some notions about personality psychology.