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Any activity undertaken by a person believing themselves to be healthy for the purposes of preventing disease or detecting it at an asymptomatic stage is known as?

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Health behaviour

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Health risk behaviours are known as?

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Behavioural pathogens

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Health protective behaviours are known as?

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Behavioural immunogens

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What are the 3 phases of problem-solving approaches?

  1. Problem E_______ and clarification
  2. G_____ setting
  3. Facilitating a______
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  1. Exploitation
  2. Goal
  3. action
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A broad term used to describe how people encode, process, interpret, remember and then learn from and use information in social interactions in order to make sense of the behaviour of others and sense of the world is known as?

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Sociocognitive models of behaviour change

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In Social Cognitive Theory, behaviour is determined by 3 types of individual expectancies. What are these expectancies?

  1. Situation-o______ expectancies
  2. Outcome expectancies
  3. S______-e_____ beliefs
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  1. Outcomes

3. Self-efficacy

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Believing that stopping smoking would reduce risk of heart-attack is an example of what type of SCT expectancy?

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Outcome expectancy

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The extent to which the person believes they can stop smoking is an example of what type of SCT expectancy?

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Self-efficacy beliefs

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Making the connection between smoking and having a heart attack would be an example of what SCT expectancy?

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Situation - outcome expectancy

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Which theory describes the influence of individual experiences, the actions of others, and environmental factors on individual health behaviors?

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Social Cognitive Theory

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What are the 4 core beliefs of the Health Belief Model?

  1. perceived s______
  2. perceived severity
  3. perceived b______
  4. perceived barriers
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  1. susceptibility

3. benefits

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Which model proposes that messages will achieve optimal behavior change if they successfully target perceived barriers, benefits, self-efficacy, and threat?

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Health Belief Model (HBM)

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The HBM proposes that the likelihood that a person will engage in particular health behaviour depends on 4 factors, what are they?

  1. D_______ factors
  2. Four beliefs
  3. C_____ to a_____
  4. Health motivation
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  1. Demographic

3. Cue to action

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Which decision-making model proposes that an individual evaluates the expected desirability of certain actions and their outcomes and select s the action with the highest success?

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Subjective Expected Utility Theory

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Which theory expanded on the HBM to include self-efficacy and adding the emotion of fear as part of threat appraisal?

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Protection Motivation Theory

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Which theory (derived from SCT) proposes that behaviors are immediately determined by behavioral intentions?

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Theory of Planned Behaviour

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Which 3 factors determine behavioural intentions in the Theory of Planned Behaviour?

  1. a_____ toward the behavior
  2. subjective n_____
  3. perceived behavioral c_____.
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  1. attitude
  2. norms
  3. control.
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When a person observes the behavior of another and then imitates that behavior, this is known as?

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The belief that one can perform a particular behaviour in a given set of circumstances is called?

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Self-efficacy

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A set of procedures designed to increase motivation to change behaviour designed by Miller and Rollnick is known as?

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Motivation Interviewing

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What is it called when a person considers themselves as being less likely than comparable others to develop an illness or experience a negative event?

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Unrealistic optimism/ Optimistic bias

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What are the 7 factors of The Alameda 7?

  1. Sleeping __ - __ hours a night
  2. Not s______
  3. Consuming no more than 1-2 drinks per day
  4. Regular e______
  5. Not eating between meals
  6. Eating breakfast
  7. Being no more than ___% overweight
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  1. 7-8
  2. smoking
  3. exercise
  4. 10%
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What are the top 3 most prevalent psychoactive drugs?

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  1. Caffeine
  2. Alcohol
  3. Nicotine
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What are 3 factors that can lead to alcohol dependency?

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  1. Genetics and family history
  2. Pre-existence of certain psycho-pathology (personality risk factors)
  3. The social learning experience
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What are factors that can lead to use of drugs and alcohol and smoking? (9) 1. G______ 2. Curiosity 3. M______, social learning and reinforcement 4. Social p_____ 5. Image and reputation 6. Self-c____ and self-e____ 7. Weight control 8. R___ t____ propensity 9. Health c______
1. Genetics 3. Modelling 4. Social pressure 6. concept, esteem 8. risk taking 9. cognitions
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What are 4 psychological issues for continuing health risk behaviour? 1. P_____ 2. Simply a h_____ 3. Form a stress self-management 4. A lack of s___- e_____
1. Pleasure 2. habit 4. A lack of self-efficacy
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Eysenck’s three factor model states that individual personality is reflected in an individuals scores along three dimensions. What are the 3 dimensions? 1. E______ 2. Neuroticism 3. P_______
1. Extroversion | 3. Psychoticism
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Persistent and chronic fear of anything new is known as?
Neophobia
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The perception that ones health is under personal control; controlled by powerful others or under control of external factors is called?
Health Locus of Control
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The personality trait where people have either internal LOC orientation (responsibility for outcomes on self) or external orientation (responsibility of outcomes left to other factors) is called what?
Generalised Locus of Control
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One's belief in personal control over a certain specific action or behaviour is known as?
Perceived behavioural control
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Having a generally negative outlook on life and a tendency to anticipate negative outcomes is known as?
Dispositional pessimism
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Which theory considers the extent to which behaviour is self-motivated and influenced by the core needs of autonomy, competence and psychological relatedness?
Self-determination theory
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How people want you to behave in certain situations is called?
Injunctive norms
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The process by which individuals monitor and adjust their behaviour, thoughts and emotions in order to maintain a balance or a sense or normal function is known as?
Self-regulation
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The extent to which a person can focus on activities and goals and avoid being distracted by competing goals, demands or negative arising emotions which may interfere with goal attainment is known as?
Attentional control
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Which theory states that individuals need to be able to find meaning in their lives if they are to achieve mental health or happiness?
Existential theory
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The simultaneous existence of both positive and negative evaluations of an attitude-object, which could be both cognitive and emotional is known as?
Ambivalence
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The tendency to answer questions about oneself or ones behaviour in a way that is though likely to meet with social approval is known as?
Social desirability bias
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What are the 3 components of attitude that are considered enduring and generalizable and are likely to predict behaviour? 1. C______: beliefs about the attitude-object 2. E______: feelings towards the attitude-object 3. B______: intended action towards the attitude-object
1. Cognitive 2. Emotional 3. Behavioural
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Continuing to smoke whilst having negative attitude towards smoking is an example of what?
Dissonance - a dissociation between attitude and behaviour
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What are the 4 factors associated with unrealistic optimism? 1. Lack of p______ e______ with the behaviour or problem 2. Belief that their individual actions can p_____ the problem 3. Belief that if the problem has not e______ already it is u_____ to do so in the future 4. Belief that the problem is r_____
1. personal experience 2. Prevent 3. emerged, unlikely 4. rare

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