Health Psych Exam 1

Health Psych Exam 1 virus that causes the disease COVID-19 ️Sars-CoV-2 interdisciplinary field concerned with developing and integrating behavioral and biomedical sciences ️behavioral medicine scientific study of behaviors that relate to health enhancement, disease prevention, and rehabilitation ️health psychology relatively short-lasting disorder that is contagious and caused by a pathogen ️infectious disease testing for a disease or condition or for a predisposition for a disease or condition ️screening number of years a person of a given age can predict they will live ️life expectancy approach to health that psychological and emotional factors contribute to physical health problems ️psychosomatic medicine health psychologists who provide clinical care ️clinical health psychologist approach to health that includes biological, psychological, and social influences ️biopsychosocial model death of an infant before their first birthday ️infant mortality long-lasting disorder that can be controlled but not cured ️chronic disease treatment for a disease ️remedial treatment any disease-causing organism ️pathogen perspective that considers disease to result from exposure to a specific disease-causing organism ️biomedical model branch of medicine that investigates various factors that contribute to frequency and distribution of disease ️epidemiology set of related assumptions from which testable hypotheses can be drawn ️theory study that begins with disease-free subjects and follows the occurrence of disease in that population ️prospective study experiment where participants don't know if their treatment is active or inactive, but testers do ️single-blind design research designs in which one group of participants is studied over a period of time ️longitudinal study factor in an experiment that represents the presumed cause of an effect or outcome ️independent variable person's chance for a particular disease compared with people who don't have that disease or lifestyle ️relative risk any positive or negative relationship between two variables ️correlation coefficient study in which subjects of different ages are studied at one point in time ️cross-sectional study set of participants in a research study who do not receive an active treatment ️control group component of disease conceptualization where the disease is labeled ️identity of the disease collection of family and friends from whom a person may first seek medical information and advice ️lay referral network activity undertaken by people who have been diagnosed as ill that are directed at getting well ️sick role behavior people's belief that they can control an illness' course by controlling the treatment or disease ️controllability personality trait marked by a tendency to experience negative emotional states ️neuroticism inoculation to provide immunity to disease ️vaccination sign that may signal disease ️symptom label for a disease or sickness ️diagnosis activity undertaken by people who feel sick and wish to discover their state of health ️illness behavior proportion of a population that has a disease at a specific point in time ️prevalence statistical technique for combining results of several studies when these studies have similar variable definitions ️meta-analysis research design that tests the effects of medical treatment ️clinical trial study where independent variable values are not manipulated, but selected after groups have naturally divided ️ex post facto design factor chosen, not manipulated by a researcher to provide comparison levels for groups of subjects ️subject variable experiment in which neither the subjects nor those dispensing treatment know who receives the active treatment ️double-blind design retrospective epidemiological studies where people affected by a given disease are compared with those unaffected ️case control studies characteristic that occurs more in people with a disease than in people without that disease ️risk factor direct, consistent correlation between an independent variable and a dependent variable ️dose response relationship person's chance of developing a disease independent of any chance other people may have ️absolute risk detrimental effect of an inactive substance that has the appearance of an active substance ️nocebo effect phenomenon in which subjects determine their own placement in either the experimental or control group ️self-selection inactive substance that may cause improvement because of people's belief in it's efficacy ️placebo longitudinal study that look back at the history of a population or sample ️retrospective study designed to yield information concerning the degree of relationship between two variables