HS3500 Final Exam questions with verified answers
Ans✓✓✓ How SCT explains health behaviors
Ans✓✓✓ Limitations of SCT
-Too broad and tries to do too much
-Research is often qualitative and descriptive
-Considerable evidence to support role of self efficacy, not the entire
model
-Measurement and analysis is weak
-helps us understand the determinants
-helps us develop interventions to promote healthy behaviors
-helps us to set goals/tasks to promote the behavior
-helps us measure behaviors Ans✓✓✓ Why do we need to be specific
when defining health behaviors (4)
(TPB) Control Beliefs and perceived power make up ___ (proximal
construct) Ans✓✓✓ Perceived Control
(TRA/TPB) Behavioral Beliefs and Evaluation of Behavioral outcomes
make up ____ (proximal construct) Ans✓✓✓ attitude
, (TRA/TPB) normative beliefs and motivation to comply make up _____
(proximal construct) Ans✓✓✓ Subjective Norm
1. Alarm
2. Resistance
3. Exhaustion Ans✓✓✓ Stress as a response: stress can be categorized
as Eustress or Distress. Response follows Model of General Adaptation
which has three stages which are ___, _____, and ____
6 Factors to consider when selecting an appropriate theory Ans✓✓✓ 1.
Consider the target behavior
2. Consider more distal determinants of health behavior
3. Carefully combine and blend theories
4. It is useful to map measures directly onto intervention components
5. Other factors influence behaviors but are not included in individual-
level theories
6. More attention to behavior change and maintenance are needed
a significant life event or change that demands response, adjustment,
or adaptation Ans✓✓✓ Stress as a stimulus definition
AIDS Ans✓✓✓ The theory of Social Networks and Social support was
really useful when dealing with the ____ epidemic
Ans✓✓✓ How SCT explains health behaviors
Ans✓✓✓ Limitations of SCT
-Too broad and tries to do too much
-Research is often qualitative and descriptive
-Considerable evidence to support role of self efficacy, not the entire
model
-Measurement and analysis is weak
-helps us understand the determinants
-helps us develop interventions to promote healthy behaviors
-helps us to set goals/tasks to promote the behavior
-helps us measure behaviors Ans✓✓✓ Why do we need to be specific
when defining health behaviors (4)
(TPB) Control Beliefs and perceived power make up ___ (proximal
construct) Ans✓✓✓ Perceived Control
(TRA/TPB) Behavioral Beliefs and Evaluation of Behavioral outcomes
make up ____ (proximal construct) Ans✓✓✓ attitude
, (TRA/TPB) normative beliefs and motivation to comply make up _____
(proximal construct) Ans✓✓✓ Subjective Norm
1. Alarm
2. Resistance
3. Exhaustion Ans✓✓✓ Stress as a response: stress can be categorized
as Eustress or Distress. Response follows Model of General Adaptation
which has three stages which are ___, _____, and ____
6 Factors to consider when selecting an appropriate theory Ans✓✓✓ 1.
Consider the target behavior
2. Consider more distal determinants of health behavior
3. Carefully combine and blend theories
4. It is useful to map measures directly onto intervention components
5. Other factors influence behaviors but are not included in individual-
level theories
6. More attention to behavior change and maintenance are needed
a significant life event or change that demands response, adjustment,
or adaptation Ans✓✓✓ Stress as a stimulus definition
AIDS Ans✓✓✓ The theory of Social Networks and Social support was
really useful when dealing with the ____ epidemic
