Chapter 3 - Health Behaviors

Question 1

Abstinence violation effect

Answer 1

A feeling of loss of control that results when one has violated self imposed rules, such as not to smoke

Question 2

Assertiveness training

Answer 2

Techniques that train people how to be appropriately assertive and social situations often included as part of health behavior, modification programs on the Sumption, that some poor health habits, such as excessive alcohol consumption, or smoking, develop in part to control difficulties and being appropriately assertive

Question 3

At risk

Answer 3

Estate of vulnerability to a particular health problems by virtue of hereditary health practices or family environment

Question 4

Behavioral assignments

Answer 4

Home practice activities that clients perform on their own as part of an integrated therapeutic intervention for behavior modification

Question 5

Classical conditioning

Answer 5

The pairing of an unconditioned reflects with a new stimulus producing a conditioned reflex

Antabuse is known as the unconditioned stimulus

Question 6

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Answer 6

Focuses on the target behavior itself, the conditions that elicit and maintain it, and the factors that reinforce it.

Question 7

Cognitive restructuring

Answer 7

A method of modifying internal monologues and stress producing situation’s to promote health behavior changes within clients

Question 8

Contingency contracting

Answer 8

A procedure in which an individual forms a contract with another person, such as a therapist detailing what awards or punishments are contingent on the performance, or not performance of a target behavior

Question 9

Discriminative stimulus

Answer 9

Environmental stimulus that is capable of eliciting a particular behavior, example the sight of food, May act as A discriminative stimulus for eating

Question 10

Fear appeal

Answer 10

Efforts to change attitudes by arousing fear, to induce the motivation to change bad health behaviors

Question 11

Health behaviors

Answer 11

Behaviors undertaken by people to enhance or maintain health, such as exercise, or the consumption of a healthy diet

Question 12

Health belief model

Answer 12

The belief that a person will practice a health behavior, depending on whether they perceive a personal health threat, and they believe that a particular health practice will be effective in reducing the threat

Question 13

Health habit

Answer 13

Health related behaviors that is firmly established

often performed automatically, without awareness

Question 14

Health locus of control

Answer 14

The perception that one’s health is under personal control is controlled by powerful others, such as positions, or is determined by external factors, including chance

Question 15

Health promotion

Answer 15

A general philosophy maintaining that health is a personal and collective achievement the process of enabling people to increase control over and approve their health health.

Promotion may occur through individual efforts through interaction with a Medical System and through a concerted health policy effort.

Question 16

Lifestyle rebalancing

Answer 16

Concerted lifestyle change in a healthy direction usually including exercise, stress management, and a healthy diet believe to contribute to relapse prevention after successful modification of a poor health, such a smoking or alcohol consumption

Question 17

Modeling

Answer 17

Learning that occurs from observing another person performing a target behavior

Question 18

Operant conditioning

Answer 18

The pairing of a voluntary non-automatic behavior with a new stimulus to reinforcement or punishment

Question 19

Perceived barriers

Answer 19

Aspects of one’s life that interfere with practicing good health behaviors

Question 20

Primary prevention

Answer 20

Measures designed to combat risk factors for illness before an illness has a chance to develop

Two strategies involved. Alter problematic health behaviors and keeping people from developing poor health habits in the first place

Question 21

Relapse prevention

Answer 21

A set of techniques designed to keep people from relapsing to prior poor health habits. After initial successful behavior. Modification includes training and coping skills for high risk for relapse situation, and lifestyle rebalancing.

Question 22

Relaxation training

Answer 22

Procedures that help people relax, include progressive muscle relaxation and deep breathing may include guided imagery, and forms of meditation, or hypnosis

Question 23

Self control

Answer 23

Estate in which an individual desiring to change behavior learns, how to modify the antecedents and the consequences of that target behavior

Question 24

Self determination theory

Answer 24

The theory that autonomous motivation and perceived competence are fundamental to behavior change

Question 25

Self efficacy

Answer 25

The perception that one is able to perform a particular action

Question 26

Self monitoring

Answer 26

Assessing the frequency antecedents and the consequences of a target behavior to be modified. Also known as self observation

Question 27

Self-regulation

Answer 27

The conscious and unconscious ways in which people control your own actions, emotions and thoughts

Question 28

Self reinforcement

Answer 28

Systematically rewarding, oneself to increase or strengthen a target behavior

Question 29

Self talk

Answer 29

Internal monologues people tell them selves things that may undermine or help them implement appropriate health habits

Question 30

Social engineering

Answer 30

Social or lifestyle, changes legislation by modifying the environment in ways to affect people’s abilities to practice a particular health behavior

Question 31

Social skills training

Answer 31

Techniques that teach people how to relax and interact comfortably in social situations often a part of health behavior, modification programs assumption that maladaptive health behaviors. Such as alcohol consumption or smoking, may develop in part to control social anxiety

Question 32

Socialization

Answer 32

Process by which people learn the norms rules and beliefs associated with their family and society parents and social institutions are usually the major agents of socialization

Question 33

Stimulus control interventions

Answer 33

Interventions designed to modify behavior that involves the removal of discriminative stimuli, that evoke a behavior targeted for change, and the substitution of a new discriminative stimuli that will invoke a desired behavior

Question 34

Teachable moment

Answer 34

The idea that certain times are more affective for teaching particular health practices than others pregnancy constitutes a teachable moment for getting woman to stop smoking

Question 35

Window of Vulnerability

Answer 35

The fact that at certain times people are more vulnerable to particular health problems. Such as as a teenager being exposed to alcohol or drugs

Question 36

Perceived threat reduction

Answer 36

A person believes a health measure will reduce a threat, whether they think the health practice is effective and whether it is worth the undertaking (pros and cons of changing their behavior)

Question 37

Theory of planned behavior

Answer 37

The theory that a persons behavior, all intentions and behavior can be understood by knowing their attitude towards the behavior

Question 38

Self affirmation

Answer 38

Occurs when people reflect upon their important values, personal qualities, or social relationships

Question 39

Transtheoretical model of behavior change

Answer 39

Belief that bad health habits not take place all at once. People go through stages while they are trying to change their health behaviors