PSYCH 412 Health Psychology (VCU) Exam 1 New Update 2025 Questions and Answers Actual Test with complete solution/100% Verified.
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PSYCH 412 Health Psychology
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PSYCH 412 Health Psychology
Factors Predicting Healthy Behaviors - ️️younger, wealthier, educated, social
supported, and less stressed individuals are more likely to have healthier behaviors
u-shaped "invincibility fable" healthy behavior dips
during adolescent and emerging adulthood
Health - ️️a complete state of...
PSYCH 412 Health Psychology (VCU)
Exam 1
Factors Predicting Healthy Behaviors - ✔️✔️younger, wealthier, educated, social
supported, and less stressed individuals are more likely to have healthier behaviors
u-shaped "invincibility fable" healthy behavior dips
during adolescent and emerging adulthood
Health - ✔️✔️a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
German origin "soundness of body"
"wellness" = optimum state of health
Biomedical model - ✔️✔️All illnesses can be explained by aberrant somatic bodily
processes
Reduces illness to low-level processes
Fails to recognize social and psychological processes as
powerful influences over bodily estates
Assumes mind-body dualism
Emphasizes illness over health rather than focusing on
behaviors that promote health
Cannot address many puzzles that face practitioners
Etiology - ✔️✔️Origins or causes of illness
Why health psychology developed - ✔️✔️Help solve mysteries surrounding health
Biopsychosocial model - ✔️✔️Considers biological, psychological, and social factors
and their complex interactions
Rejects dualistic biomedical model
Rejects view of the body as more "real" and worthy of more
attention
Rejects monistic/reductionistic view vs complex interactions
Need for health psychology - ✔️✔️Increase in chronic or lifestyle related illnesses
Advances in technology and research
Expanded health care services
Increased medical acceptance
Theory - ✔️✔️Set of analytic statements that explain a set of phenomena
Provide guidelines for how to do research and interventions
, Generate specific predictions that can be tested and
modified
Help tie together loose ends
Experiment - ✔️✔️Characteristics include
2 conditions (treatment/control)
Iv and dv
Randomized assignment
Greater control (internal validity)
Can determine cause and effect
Limited generalizability
Health Psychology - ✔️✔️Studies psychological influences on people
How they stay healthy
Why they become ill
How they respond when they get ill
Randomized Clinical Trials - ✔️✔️Conducted to evaluate treatments or interventions
and their effectiveness over time
Evidence-based Medicine - ✔️✔️Medical interventions go through rigorous testing and
evaluation of their benefits before they become the standard of care
Correlational studies - ✔️✔️Measures whether a change in one variable corresponds
with changes in another variable
Disadvantage: difficult to determine the direction of causality
unambiguously (less control)
Advantage: more adaptable (external validity)
Prospective Research - ✔️✔️Looks forward in time to see how
Groups of people change
Relationship between two variables changes over time
Conducted to understand the risk factors that relate to
health conditions
Longitudinal Research - ✔️✔️Same people are observed at multiple points in time
Retrospective Research - ✔️✔️Looks backward in time in an attempt to reconstruct the
conditions that led to a current situation
Epidemiology - ✔️✔️Study of the frequency, distribution, and causes of infectious and
noninfectious disease in a population
Morbidity - ✔️✔️Number of cases of a disease that exist at some given point in time
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