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PH 144 Midterm 1 Questions and Correct
Answers
What is not a powerful motivator? Ans: Knowledge
Anything a person does that affects that person's health status or
risk Ans: Health Behavior
Preventative Behavior,
Illness Behavior
Sick Role Behavior Ans: 3 categories of health behavior
The behavior a person does to avoid sickness Ans: Preventative
Behavior
The behavior someone does to define illness and discover remedy
Ans: Illness Behavior
The activities done by someone to get better from an illness Ans:
Sick Role Behavior
Theories that are created based on the knowledge at hand and is
made by "making-sense" of a situation. We invoke this on a daily
basis Ans: Commonsense Theories
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More elaborate, defined purpose, uses concepts/constructs,
variables, statements. This uses a deductive systems Ans:
Scientific theories
Interrelated propositions that create a parsimonious system for
explaining and predicting human behavior, present a systematic
view of situations in order to explain and predict situations Ans:
Scientific Health Behavior Theory
Abstract ideas that logically build a theory; ideas or notions
typically "unobservable or latent" Ans: concepts/constructs
Concepts/constructs are defined into "measurable" & "observable"
terms Ans: variables
Question that finds that association between two or more
constructs and helps connect theories with assumptions Ans:
Hypothesis
Answering & Answering; Predicting & Analyzing Ans: Theoretical
thinking
systematic views,
specify relations among variables,
explain or predict events/situations
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PH 144 Midterm 1 Questions and Correct
Answers
What is not a powerful motivator? Ans: Knowledge
Anything a person does that affects that person's health status or
risk Ans: Health Behavior
Preventative Behavior,
Illness Behavior
Sick Role Behavior Ans: 3 categories of health behavior
The behavior a person does to avoid sickness Ans: Preventative
Behavior
The behavior someone does to define illness and discover remedy
Ans: Illness Behavior
The activities done by someone to get better from an illness Ans:
Sick Role Behavior
Theories that are created based on the knowledge at hand and is
made by "making-sense" of a situation. We invoke this on a daily
basis Ans: Commonsense Theories
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More elaborate, defined purpose, uses concepts/constructs,
variables, statements. This uses a deductive systems Ans:
Scientific theories
Interrelated propositions that create a parsimonious system for
explaining and predicting human behavior, present a systematic
view of situations in order to explain and predict situations Ans:
Scientific Health Behavior Theory
Abstract ideas that logically build a theory; ideas or notions
typically "unobservable or latent" Ans: concepts/constructs
Concepts/constructs are defined into "measurable" & "observable"
terms Ans: variables
Question that finds that association between two or more
constructs and helps connect theories with assumptions Ans:
Hypothesis
Answering & Answering; Predicting & Analyzing Ans: Theoretical
thinking
systematic views,
specify relations among variables,
explain or predict events/situations
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