Health Psychology Chapter 3 Vocab

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Abstinence Violation Effect
A feeling of loss of control that results when a person has violated self-imposed rules.

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TermDefinition
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 ContractingAn 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 ModelWhether 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-ControlThe 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 InterventionsInvolve 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.