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Health Psychology 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is health psychology? | The scientific study of psychological processes related to health and health care |
| What is the biomedical model? | |
| How does the biomedical model explain health? | all illnesses can be explained by abnormal somatic processes |
| What are the characteristics for the biomedical model? | |
| explain Mechanistic | focus on specific parts |
| explain Dualistic | views psychological health as seperate from physical health. |
| What is the biopsychosocial model? | |
| How does the biopsychosocial model explain health? | |
| How have the major health problems in the U.S. changed since the beginning of the 20th century? | |
| How significant is the role of health behaviors (e.g., tobacco use, poor diet/physical inactivity) in current major health problems in the U.S.? | |
| What are operational definitions? | |
| What are the survey, case study, observational, and archival methods? | |
| What are the advantages and disadvantages surveys | |
| What is correlational research? | |
| Does correlation indicate causation? | |
| What are the advantages and disadvantages case studies | |
| What are the advantages and disadvantages observational method | |
| What are the advantages and disadvantages archival methods | |
| what are the 4 missions of health psychology? | to promote and maintain health, to prevent and treat illness, to identify the causes of health and illness, to analyze and improve the health care system. |
| what is health? | a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity |
| what does health psychology consider? | Psychophysiological context, social context, behavioral context, institutional context, societal and cultural context. |
| what are the steps in the research process? | |
| Example of survey method | |
| Example of case studies | |
| Example of observational methods | |
| example of archival methods | |
| ccorrelation does not indicate ____ | Causation |
| What is correlation | |
| what are positive correlations | |
| what are negative correlations | |
| what is causation | |
| what is a placebo control group | |
| what is experimental design | |
| Manipulation of the IV --> how does this influence the DV? | |
| What is random Assignment | |
| what is experimental Control | |
| what is a moderator | |
| example of moderator | |
| what is mediator | |
| example of mediator | |
| what is internal validity | |
| what is external validity | |
| randomized trials in health psychology | |
| Quasi Experimental Design - what is it | |
| what are some criterias for causality to be tentatively assumed | |
| what is restropeective research | |
| what is prospective research | |
| what is a problem for retrospective research | |
| what is cross sectional design | |
| what is one problem with cross sectional design | |
| what is longitudinal design | |
| what is one problem with LONGtudinal design | time consuming |
| what is field research | |
| what is the problem with field research | |
| what is laboratory research | |
| what is the problem with laboratory research. | |
| what is startistical significance | |
| what is effective size | |
| what is metal analysis. |
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