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PSC 126 M1 STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION!!
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PSC 126 M1 STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION!!What is the definition of health psychology? Answers :Scientific study of psychological influences n physical health
What are the 3 spheres/parts of health psychology? Answers :How we stay healthy
Why we become ill
How we respond when we get ill
What is health? Answers :Complete state of physical mental and social well being
What is a noncommunicable disease? Answers :A disease that is not contagious/can not be transmitted from one person to another
What are examples of a noncommunicable disease? Answers :CVD
Diabetes
Chronic respiratory diseases
Cancer
How have the causes of mortality changed since the 1900s? Answers :Initially having to do more with acute infectious disorders
Shifted to more chronic non-communicable diseases (and more recently communicable diseases) What are the factors contributing to longevity? Answers :Supportive social relationships
Coping with stress
Civic engagement
Conscientiousness
Life satisfaction
Physical activity
What is the biomedical model? Answers :Biological reductionism
Health exclusively determined by biology
What is the biopsychosocial model? Answers :Health influenced by biological, psychological and social factors
Health outcomes are impacted by social determinants
What is a theory? Answers :
What is an experiment? Answers :Study where 2+ conditions are created and people are assigned randomly
What is a randomized clinical trial? Answers :Experiment used to evaluate treatments/interventions and their effectiveness
What is correlational research? Answers :Measures whether change in one variable corresponds with changes in another variable
What is a prospective research design? Answers :When you are looking forward in time
Seeing how people will change
See how relationship between 2 variables changes over time
What is a retrospective research design? Answers :Research looks backward in time; tries to reconstruct conditions that lead to current situation
What is morbidity? Answers :# of cases of a DISEASE that exist at a given point in time
What is mortality? Answers :# of cases of DEATHS due to a particular cause
What is prevalence? Answers :PROPORTION of a population who have a specific characteristic
What is incidence?
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