BTEC Applied Psychology - Unit 3 Health Psychology Exam Questions With Correct Answers

BTEC Applied Psychology - Unit 3 Health
Psychology Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
Health and Ill Health general definition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-complete
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physical, mental and social well-being, not just the absence of disease
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Health and Ill Health BIOMEDICAL definition - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-physical/biological factors, illness is a physical disease and health is | | | | | | | | | |


the absence of disease
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Health and Ill Health BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL definition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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interaction of biological, psychological and social factors to enhance health and
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prevent disease |




Health as a Continuum - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-health/ill health are two
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extremes with many in-between states
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Stress - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-emotional response to situations of threat
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Physical stressors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-temperature, noise
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Psychological stressors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-life events, daily hassles
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,Physiological Stress Response - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-bodily symptoms;
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increased heart rate, sick, sweating
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Psychological Stress Response - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the emotion you feel
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when a stressor occurs
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Perceived Ability to Cope - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-people react different to the
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same stressors due to perception of our internal and external coping resources
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Addiction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-complex mental health disorder, pleasurable
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despite harmful consequences
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Physiological addiction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-physical effects; withdrawal and
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tolerance


Griffiths 6 Components of Addiction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Salience (physical
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and psychological dependence)
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2. Tolerence
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3. Withdrawal
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4. Relapse
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5. Conflict
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6. Mood alteration
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HBM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-explains why people engage/don't in healthy
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behaviour |

, 1. perceived seriousness
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2. perceived susceptibility
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3. cost-benefit analysis
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4. modifying factors (demographics variables, self efficacy etc)
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HBM Evaluation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-+ practical application, bowel/colon
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cancer
+ strong credibility, works irl
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- not a single model
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- assumes we are rational
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HBM studies - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Becker and Carpenter
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LOC - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-internal: events under own control, take blame
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external: outside own control, blame others
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LOC evaluation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-+Research, externals vulnerable to risks
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factors (AVTGIS) |




+Practical Application, internal protects against stress (GALE)
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-Limited role in health related behaviours, only current relevance
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-Complex, internals can be stressed by unavoidable events (KRAUSE)
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LOC 3 studies - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Rotter (review into internal/external)
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Abouserie (gender differences, Loc and self esteem link in students)
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