Abstinence Violation Effect
A feeling of loss of control that results when a person has violated self-imposed rules.
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstinence Violation Effect | A feeling of loss of control that results when a person has violated self-imposed rules. |
| Assertiveness Training | People are trained in methods that help them deal more effectively with social anxiety. |
| At Risk | Based on your lifestyle and how you take care of yourself determines what you're____for. |
| Behavioral Assignments | Are designed to provide continuity in a treatment of a behavior problem. |
| Classical Conditioning | The pairing of an unconditioned reflex with a new stimulus, producing a conditioned reflex. |
| Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) | Interventions use several complementary methods to intervene in the modification of a target problem and its context. |
| Cognitive Restructuring | Trains people to recognize and modify their internal monologues to promote health behavior change. |
| Contingency Contracting | An individual forms a contract with another person, such as a therapist or friends, detailing what rewards or punishments are contingent on the performance or nonperformance of a behavior. |
| Discriminative Stimulus | Seeing or smelling something that makes you want to do that action. |
| Fear Appeals | This approach assumes that if people are afraid that a particular habit is hurting their health, they will change their habit. |
| Health Behaviors | Are behaviors undertaken by people to enhance or maintain their health. |
| Health Belief Model | Whether a person practices a health behavior depends on two factors: whether the person perceives a personal health threat, and whether the person believes that a particular health practice will be effective in reducing that threat. |
| Health Habit | A health behavior that is firmly established and often performed automatically, without awareness. |
| Health Locus of Control | Measures the degree to which people perceive their health to be under personal control, control by the health partitioner, or chance. |
| Health Promotion | A philosophy that has at its core the idea that good health, or wellness, is a personal and collective achievement. |
| Lifestyle Rebalancing | Long-term maintenance of behavior change can be promoted by leading the person to make other health-oriented lifestyle changes. |
| Modeling | Learning that occurs from witnessing another person perform a behavior. |
| Operant Conditioning | Contingencies build up those behaviors paired with positive reinforcement, whereas behaviors that are punished or not rewarded decline. |
| Perceives Barriers | Aspects of one's life that interfere with practicing good health behaviors. |
| Primary Prevention | Instilling good health habits and changing poor ones. |
| Relapse Prevention | Enrolling people who are initially committed and motivated to change their behavior reduces the risk of relapse and weeds out people who are not truly committed to behavior change. |
| Relaxation Training | Involves deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation. |
| Self-Control | The person acts as his or her own therapist and, together with outside guidance, learns to control the antecedents and consequences of the target behavior. |
| Self-Determination Theory (SDT) | A theory that also guides health behavior modification, builds on the idea that people are actively motivated to pursue their goals. |
| Self-Efficacy | The belief that one can control one's practice of a particular behavior. |
| Self-Monitoring | Assess the frequency of a target behavior and the antecedents and consequences of that behavior. |
| Self-Regulation | Refers to the fact that people control their own actions, emotions, and thoughts. |
| Self-Reinforcement | Systematically rewarding oneself to increase or decrease the occurrence of a target behavior. |
| Self-Talk | Help people talk themselves through tempting situations. |
| Social Engineering | Modifies the environment in ways that affect people's abilities to practice a particular health behavior. |
| Social Skills Training | People are trained in methods that help them deal more effectively with social anxiety. |
| Socialization | Health habits are strongly influenced by. |
| Stimulus-Control Interventions | Involve ridding the environment of discriminative stimuli that evoke the problem behavior, and creating new discriminative stimuli, signaling that a new response will be reinforced. |
| Teachable Moment | Using examples to learn. |
| Theory of Planned Behavior | A health behavior is the direct result of a behavioral intention. |
| Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change | A model that analyzes the stages and processes people go through analyzes the stages and processes people go through in bringing about a chance in behavior and suggested treatment goals and interventions for each stage. |
| Window of Vulnerability | When students are first exposed to these habits among their peers. |