PSYCH 375 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE
Health Psychology - Answer -field devoted to understanding psychological influences
on how ppl stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when you get ill
health - Answer -complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
wellness - Answer -optimum state of health
etiology - Answer -origins or causes of illness
conversion hysteria - Answer -a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of
mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent
cause)
psychosomatic medicine - Answer -study that emphasizes the role of psychological
factors in disease
biopsychosocial model - Answer -model that connects mind and body together to
determine health and illness-consequences of biological, psychological, and social
factors
biomedical model - Answer -model that maintained that illness can be explained on
basis of abnormal bodily processes (chemical imbalance)
systems theory - Answer -theory that maintains that all levels of organization in any
entity are linked to each other hierarchically and that change in one level changes all
levels (relates to biopsycholosocial model)
acute disorders - Answer -short-term illnesses often result of viral or bacterial invader
and usually improvable by a cure
epidemiology - Answer -study of frequency, distribution, and causes of infectious and
noninfectious disease in a population
morbidity - Answer -number of cases of disease that exist at any given point
mortality - Answer -number of deaths due to particular causes
experiment - Answer -condition wherein researcher creates 2+ conditions that differ
from each other in exact and predetermined ways
, randomized clinical trials - Answer -experiments conducted by health care
professionals to evaluate treatments of interventions and their effectiveness over time
longitudinal research - Answer -research approach wherein the same ppl are observed
over a long period of time
correlational research - Answer -psychological measure measuring whether a change
in one variable corresponds with that of another
retrospective research - Answer -research investigation that looks backwards in time in
attempt to reconstruct the conditions that led to a current situation
prospective research - Answer -research looking forward in time to see how a group of
individuals change or how relationship between two variables changes over time
health promotion - Answer -general philosophy that has at its core the idea that good
health or wellness is personal and collective achievement
health behaviors - Answer -behaviors undertaken by people to enhance or maintain
their health
health habit - Answer -health-related behavior that is firmly established and often
performed automatically without awareness
primary prevention - Answer -task of instilling good health habits and changing poor
ones
health locus of control - Answer -perceptions that one's health habit is under personal
control
health belief model - Answer -model that states that whether a person practices a
health behavior depends on two factors: whether personal perceives a personal health
threat, whether a person believes that a particular practice will be effective in reducing
the threat
theory of planned behavior - Answer -theory that states that a health behavior is the
direct results of a behavioral intention
cognitive-behavior therapy - Answer -therapy that addresses behavior itself, the
conditions that elicit and maintain it, and the factors that reinforce it
discriminative stimulus - Answer -stimuli that acts to elicit target behavior
stimulus-control interventions - Answer -therapy in which environment is rid of
discriminative stimuli and wherein new stimuli are created to be associated with health
behavior
Health Psychology - Answer -field devoted to understanding psychological influences
on how ppl stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when you get ill
health - Answer -complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
wellness - Answer -optimum state of health
etiology - Answer -origins or causes of illness
conversion hysteria - Answer -a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of
mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent
cause)
psychosomatic medicine - Answer -study that emphasizes the role of psychological
factors in disease
biopsychosocial model - Answer -model that connects mind and body together to
determine health and illness-consequences of biological, psychological, and social
factors
biomedical model - Answer -model that maintained that illness can be explained on
basis of abnormal bodily processes (chemical imbalance)
systems theory - Answer -theory that maintains that all levels of organization in any
entity are linked to each other hierarchically and that change in one level changes all
levels (relates to biopsycholosocial model)
acute disorders - Answer -short-term illnesses often result of viral or bacterial invader
and usually improvable by a cure
epidemiology - Answer -study of frequency, distribution, and causes of infectious and
noninfectious disease in a population
morbidity - Answer -number of cases of disease that exist at any given point
mortality - Answer -number of deaths due to particular causes
experiment - Answer -condition wherein researcher creates 2+ conditions that differ
from each other in exact and predetermined ways
, randomized clinical trials - Answer -experiments conducted by health care
professionals to evaluate treatments of interventions and their effectiveness over time
longitudinal research - Answer -research approach wherein the same ppl are observed
over a long period of time
correlational research - Answer -psychological measure measuring whether a change
in one variable corresponds with that of another
retrospective research - Answer -research investigation that looks backwards in time in
attempt to reconstruct the conditions that led to a current situation
prospective research - Answer -research looking forward in time to see how a group of
individuals change or how relationship between two variables changes over time
health promotion - Answer -general philosophy that has at its core the idea that good
health or wellness is personal and collective achievement
health behaviors - Answer -behaviors undertaken by people to enhance or maintain
their health
health habit - Answer -health-related behavior that is firmly established and often
performed automatically without awareness
primary prevention - Answer -task of instilling good health habits and changing poor
ones
health locus of control - Answer -perceptions that one's health habit is under personal
control
health belief model - Answer -model that states that whether a person practices a
health behavior depends on two factors: whether personal perceives a personal health
threat, whether a person believes that a particular practice will be effective in reducing
the threat
theory of planned behavior - Answer -theory that states that a health behavior is the
direct results of a behavioral intention
cognitive-behavior therapy - Answer -therapy that addresses behavior itself, the
conditions that elicit and maintain it, and the factors that reinforce it
discriminative stimulus - Answer -stimuli that acts to elicit target behavior
stimulus-control interventions - Answer -therapy in which environment is rid of
discriminative stimuli and wherein new stimuli are created to be associated with health
behavior
