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Book: Health Psychology (9th/10th Edition) by Shelly Taylor. Chapter 1-5.

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show pysch and health (stress, motivate people to exercise, quit smoking, how to stay healthy, how people become ill)  
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biomedical model   show
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show interplay between pyschology, biology, and social factors  
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show study showed that the cause was genetic susceptibility  
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need for health psychology   show
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show after learning the outcome of an event, people believe they could have predicted the outcome  
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show perception of a relationship where no relationship exists  
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order in random events   show
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confirmation bias   show
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show objective, well-controlled, replicated  
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descriptive study   show
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show case studies, surveys, naturalistic observation  
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descriptive study weakness   show
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show assess the relationship between two or more naturally occurring things  
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operational definition   show
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reason for correlational   show
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correlational weakness   show
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show equal causation  
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experimental method   show
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indenpendent variable   show
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show what is measured  
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show sometimes not feasible, results may not generalize to other contexts, not ethical to manipulate certain variables  
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show ensuring that nothing besides IV can affect DV, controlling extraneous variables  
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external validity   show
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show look forward in time, how will groups change, relationship between variables over time  
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show look backward to attempt to reconstruct the conditions that led to a current situation (AIDS research)  
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show undertaken to maintain health  
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show firmly established health behavior  
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show alter and prevent  
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show demographics, age, values, personal control, social influence, perceived symptoms, access to health care, knowledge and intelligence  
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why behaviors hard to change   show
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cognitive dissonance   show
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instability and independence of health behaviors   show
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show assumption people change habits if they have good information  
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show work but shown ineffective, too much fear undermines health behavior change, fear alone is not sufficient  
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health belief model   show
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theory of planned behavior   show
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self-determination theory   show
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implementation intentions   show
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show change how people appraise and respond to potentially unwelcome health information  
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cognitive behavioral therapy   show
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show trains people to recognize and modify their internal monologues to promote health behavior change  
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show reinforcements or punishments contingent on participants behavior  
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interventions to modify diet   show
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show drugs, smoking, eating badly  
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show each individual has an ideal biological weight, which cannot be greatly modified  
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show new studies demonstrating certain types of gut bacteria associated with obesity  
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smoking health risks   show
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Longitudinal study   show
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show observational research that analyzes data of variables collected at one given point in time across a sample population or a pre-defined subset  
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