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PH144 Exam 1 with accurate detailed answers ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




Health Behavior - correct answer✔✔Anything a person does that affects the person's||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




health status or risk of disease ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




Ex of GOOD: Exercise & Eating vegetables
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Ex of BAD: Smoking & Unprotected sex
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3 Categories of Health Behavior - correct answer✔✔-Preventive Health Behavior
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-Illness Behavior ||\\|//||




-Sick Role Behavior ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




Preventive Health Behavior - correct answer✔✔Activities performed by healthy people in ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




order to stay healthy ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




Ex: Exercise, diet, & wash hands
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Illness Behavior - correct answer✔✔-Activities performed by ill people to define the illness
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and discover a remedy ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




Ex: Take temperature & throat culture
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Sick Role Behavior - correct answer✔✔-Activities performed by ill people in order to
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become well ||\\|//||




Ex: Rest, vitamin C, & chicken soup
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Commonsense Theories - correct answer✔✔"Explanations" we invoke (on a daily basis) to ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




make sense of events we encounter in our lives - sense-making (conspiracy theories)
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, Commonsense Theories vs Scientific Theories - correct answer✔✔Scientific theories... ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




-More elaborate ||\\|//||




-Contain more clearly outlined characteristics ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




-Have a defined purpose ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




Theories all have... - correct answer✔✔-Concept/constructs ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




-Variables

-Hypotheses



Concepts & Constructs - correct answer✔✔-The abstract units that logically build a theory.
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Often used interchangeably. ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




-Ideas or notions (that have been "branded into a theory with a technical name") that are
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typically "unobservable or latent" ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




-Ex: Self-efficacy, perceived severity, social norms
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Variables - correct answer✔✔-Concepts/constructs are operationalized (defined) into||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




"measurable" or "observable" terms called variables ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




-Referred to as the "proxy" for the concept/construct and can take on two or more values.
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-Ex: Self-efficacy- cannot see but can measure it - perceived ability or skill in certain
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behavior



Hypotheses - correct answer✔✔-Helps connect the theoretical dots with empirical ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




assumptions about phenomenon we would expect to observe. ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




-Associations between two or more constructs ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




-Hypotheses (or assumptions of associations between two or more constructs - measured as ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




variables) can be "tested"...
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Ho: no association
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