PSY 320 3
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- general philosophy that has its core at the idea that good health, or wellness is a personal and collective achievement
- health promotion
- behaviors undertaken by people to enhance or maintain their health
- health behaviors
- health-related behavior firmly established and often performed automatically
- health habit
- instilling good health habits and changing poor ones
- primary prevention
- measures degree to which people perceive themselves to be in control of their health, perceive powerful others to be in control of their health, or regard chance as the major determinant of their health
- health locus of control
- certain times are better than others for teaching particular health practices
- teachable moment
- junior high appears to be an important time for the development of health-related habits
- window of vulnerability
- if people are fearful that a habit is hurting their health, they will change it
- fear appeals
- whether a person practices a particular health behavior depends on whether the person perceives a personal health threat and whether the person believes that a particular health practice will be effective in reducing that threat
- health belief model
- belief that one can control one's practice of a particular behavior
- self-efficacy
- behavior intentions are made up of attitudes toward the specific action, subjective norms regarding the action, and perceived behavioral control
- theory of planned behavior
- change focus to target behavior itself, the conditions that elicit and maintain it, and the factors that reinforce it
- cognitive behavior therapy
- assess frequency of target behavior and the antecedents and consequences of that behavior
- self-monitoring
- pairing of unconditioned reflex with a new stimulus
- classical conditioning
- pairs a voluntary behavior with systematic consequences
- operant conditioning
- learning that occurs by virtue of witnessing another person perform a behavior
- modeling
- individual acts as own therapist and learns to control target behavior
- self-control
- rewarding oneself to increase or decrease the occurrence of a behavior
- self-reinforcement
- trains people to recognized and modify internal monologues to promote health behavior change
- cognitive restructuring
- home practice activities that support goals of a therapeutic intervention
- behavioral assignments
- feeling of loss of control when a person has violated self-imposed rules
- abstinence violation effect
- modifying the environment in way that affect people's ability to practice a particular health behavior
- social engineering