Health Unit: Studies

Question 1

Bandura

Answer 1

Social Learning Theory: Bob the doll experiment, children learn from the people around them

Question 2

Unger

Answer 2

2001: individualistic cultures have more smokers, especially if peers smoke

Question 3

Bauman

Answer 3

1990: if your parents smoke, you are more likely to try it

Question 4

set point theory

Answer 4

Bennett and Gurin, 1982: an individual’s body has a set weight it wants to maintain

Question 5

settling point theory

Answer 5

James Hill: a number of factors influence weight and sustained life changes can change set point

Question 6

General adaptation syndrome

Answer 6

seyle, 1956: a model of the body’s stress response

Question 7

T-cells

Answer 7

Kilcott-Glaser, 1984: medical students on the first day of class vs. the final had lower T-cell counts (immune cells)

Question 8

Reed

Answer 8

1999: those who were more optimistic survived longer with AIDS

Question 9

the Truth

Answer 9

1998: massive media campaign against tobacco companies

Question 10

Sly

Answer 10

2002: amount of exposure to campaign is a predictor of non-smokers staying that way

Question 11

BMC Psychiatry

Answer 11

2006: 81% of participants in group therapy had been abstinent for 6 months vs. 28% not in group therapy

Question 12

CBT study

Answer 12

Carroll, 1998: CBT found to be successful treatment method for cocaine addiction through the development of coping strategies