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

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Health psychology   pysch and health (stress, motivate people to exercise, quit smoking, how to stay healthy, how people become ill)  
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biomedical model   maintains illness is a biological issue  
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biopsychosocial model   interplay between pyschology, biology, and social factors  
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CS-sudden nocturnal death among SE Asians   study showed that the cause was genetic susceptibility  
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need for health psychology   increase in chronic or lifestyle-related illnesses, advances in technology and research, increased medical acceptance  
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hindsight bias   after learning the outcome of an event, people believe they could have predicted the outcome  
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illusory correlation   perception of a relationship where no relationship exists  
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order in random events   given random data, we look for order and meaningful patterns  
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confirmation bias   tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories  
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markers of good research   objective, well-controlled, replicated  
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descriptive study   observe and record behavior; describe people, their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors  
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descriptive study example   case studies, surveys, naturalistic observation  
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descriptive study weakness   no control of the variables, and single studies may be misleading  
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correlational method   assess the relationship between two or more naturally occurring things  
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operational definition   working definition of each variable within study  
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reason for correlational   assess how well one variable predicts another  
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correlational weakness   does not specify cause and effect  
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Correlation does not...   equal causation  
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experimental method   used to explore cause and effect  
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indenpendent variable   what is manipulated to determine influence or behavior  
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dependent variable   what is measured  
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experimental disadvantages   sometimes not feasible, results may not generalize to other contexts, not ethical to manipulate certain variables  
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Internal validity   ensuring that nothing besides IV can affect DV, controlling extraneous variables  
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external validity   extent to which results can be generalized to other situations and other people  
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prospective research   look forward in time, how will groups change, relationship between variables over time  
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retrospective research   look backward to attempt to reconstruct the conditions that led to a current situation (AIDS research)  
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health behaviors   undertaken to maintain health  
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health habit   firmly established health behavior  
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primary prevention   alter and prevent  
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factors for practicing and changing health behaviors   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   distant consequences, health info makes us defensive  
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cognitive dissonance   inconsistent thoughts or beliefs, especially relating to behavioral decisions  
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instability and independence of health behaviors   health habits are controlled by different factors and can change over time  
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informational/educational appeals   assumption people change habits if they have good information  
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fear appeals   work but shown ineffective, too much fear undermines health behavior change, fear alone is not sufficient  
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health belief model   individuals are more likely to engage in healthy behavior if they feel susceptible to various health problems that may stem from failure to do so  
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theory of planned behavior   beliefs that outcomes of the behavior, evaluations of the outcomes of the behavior, normative beliefs, motivation to comply  
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self-determination theory   people actively motivated to pursue their goals, components are fundamental to behavior change  
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implementation intentions   integrate conscious processing with automatic behavioral enactment  
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self-affirmation   change how people appraise and respond to potentially unwelcome health information  
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cognitive behavioral therapy   self monitoring, cognitive restructuring, behavioral modification, stimulus control, contingency contracting  
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cognitive restructuring   trains people to recognize and modify their internal monologues to promote health behavior change  
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contingency contracting   reinforcements or punishments contingent on participants behavior  
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interventions to modify diet   education, CBT, improving social support, family interventions, social engineering  
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health compromising behaviors   drugs, smoking, eating badly  
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set point theory   each individual has an ideal biological weight, which cannot be greatly modified  
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obesity microbiome   new studies demonstrating certain types of gut bacteria associated with obesity  
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smoking health risks   lung cancer, 4x more likely to get cancer, increase in chronic bronchitis, second hand smoke  
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Longitudinal study   researchers repeatedly examine the same individuals to detect any changes that might occur over a period of time.  
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cross -sectional study   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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