What is health psychology? - correct answer✔✔study of psychological and behavioral
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processes in health, illness, and healthcare ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
What do health psychologists do? - correct answer✔✔Study positive and negative health
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habits, the relationship between stress and health, and how to treat medical illnesses by
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psychological methods ||\\//||
biomedical model - correct answer✔✔illness solely in terms of biological factors. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
biopsychosocial model - correct answer✔✔abnormal behavior is seen as the result of ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
biological, psychological, social, and cultural influences ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
What are the important assumptions of the biopsychosocial model? - correct
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answer✔✔wellbeing of the organism ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
What are the important assumptions of the Biomedical model? - correct answer✔✔all
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illness has a single underlying cause||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
How your behavior influences health? - correct answer✔✔behaviors that you engage in
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may have implications for your health.
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What are the patterns of illness in the last century? - correct answer✔✔First, the body has
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important limitations. ||\\//||
Second, shift has taken place in the patterns of illness.
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, Finally, economics has played an important role due to the rising cost.
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Interacting with the health care system? - correct answer✔✔setting and manner in which
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health care is delivered can also influence our health.
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Different types of research design/ methods? - correct answer✔✔Hypotheses, Theory,
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Experiments, Nonexperimental techniques, & Epidemiological Techniques. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Hypothesis - correct answer✔✔An educated guess ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Theory - correct answer✔✔well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of
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observations
experiment - correct answer✔✔Controlled observations that test the hypothesis ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Nonexperimental - correct answer✔✔observational study ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Epidemiological - correct answer✔✔The study of epidemic diseases ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Epidemiological terms - correct answer✔✔Incidence, Prevalence, Morbidity, ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
& Mortality
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Incidence - correct answer✔✔# new cases a year ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Prevalence - correct answer✔✔# of cases of an illness overall ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||