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 rehab...
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
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