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What is health psychology?
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-Belief that lifestyle choices, behaviors, and pscyholgical characteristics play important role in health.
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What is Behavioral medicine?
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-field that focueses on developing behvaioral and biomedical knowledge to promote health
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What does biopsychological model state?
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-health is influenced by interactions betwwen biological, pscyhological, and social factors.
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What is health behavior?
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-practices that have impact on physical well-being; brushing teeth, exercising, not smoking
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What are the stages of Change Model? Describe each stages
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1. Precontemplation: not aware that they have problems.
2. Contemplation: acknowledges the problems, but not ready to commit to change. 3. Preparation/determination: individuals are ready to take action; finds a role model and makes a plan 4. Action/Will power: commit to making a real change and enact a plan; finds reinforcement; social network can be supportive; new explicit attitude adopted. 5.Maintanance: persuing healthy behavior; "Transcendence" no longer consciously engages in maintingin healthy habits; explicit-->implicit attitude |
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During change-model steps, one need what changes?
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-attitude and behavior change.
attitude: via classcial conditioning, logical analysis, heuristics, social norms -reforming beahvior includes, classical/operant conditioning, observational learning. |
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What are the three resources for Effective Life change?
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1. Social relationship
2. Religion 3. Personality |
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How is social relationship crucial in health?
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-social support; information and feeback which indicates that one is loved; tangible asistance, emotional support, and information(recommendation of specific strategies)
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How can religious fatih be one of the resources of effective life change?
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-healthy life style
-social support -sense of life meaning -buffer agaisnt stress (optimistic) |
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Persoanlity traits that affects health are...
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1. Neuroticism: high level associated with not practicing certain health behaviors
2. Conscientiousness: people are responsilbe and reliable (and self-efficacy and optimism) |
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What is General Adaptation syndrom (GAS) and explain the stages.
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Stage1: alaram, flight or fight, sympathetic NS
Stage 2: Resistance; adaptation to stressor, normal outward appearnce Stage 3: exhausion, death |
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What is psychoneuroimmunology?
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-study that exlplores connections among psychological factors, the nervous system, and the immune system
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How are stress and cardiovascular disease related?
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-stress=> high blood pressure, heart disease, early death, blood clots more
-2nd hand: more likely to smoke, overeat, and avoid excersicing |
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How are cancer and stress correlated?
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-inhibits number of celluar immune respnses (diminished # of natural killers [NK])
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vulnerability of stress depends on...
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-physcial, metal health, personality, coping skill, cognitive appraisal of stressor (personal interpretation), and intensity of stressor
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What are the biggest health risks of Americans?
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Obesity
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Smoking leads to...
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cancer, heart disease, chronic pulmonary disease, death
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