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answers


What is a theory? - correct answer✔✔Abstract model created to explain or predict
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phenomena



What are the characteristics of a good theory? - correct answer✔✔- Internally Consistent
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- Parsimonious
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- Plausible
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- Predictable
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Internally Consistent - correct answer✔✔Doesn't make predictions that contradict one
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another



Parsimonious - correct answer✔✔Broadly relevant without being too complicated ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




Plausible - correct answer✔✔Fits existing knowledge, built on existing research
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Predictive - correct answer✔✔Accurately predicts behavior and works ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




What are the three categories of health behavior? - correct answer✔✔1. Preventative
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health behavior ||\\|//||




2. Illness behavior
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3. Sick-role behavior
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, What is a variable? - correct answer✔✔Concepts/constructs that are operationalized into
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models



When your model doesn't work or data doesn't support he model, what do you do? -
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correct answer✔✔Refine the model ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




What alone will not change behavior? - correct answer✔✔Knowledge
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Health Belief Model - correct answer✔✔Behavior is based on
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- Perceived susceptibility
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- Perceived severity
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- Perceived barriers
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- Cues to action
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- Self efficacy
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Perceived susceptibility - correct answer✔✔Person's assessment of likelihood of them ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




getting a given condition ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




Perceived severity - correct answer✔✔Person's view of how severely they would be ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




impacted if affected ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




Perceived barriers - correct answer✔✔Person's perceptions of difficulties they would ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




encounter in taking proposed actions--including physiological and psychological barriers ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




Cues to Action - correct answer✔✔Prompts needed to move a person into state of
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readiness to take prescribed actions (ex: marked calendars, e-mail reminders) ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||

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