Defining Health & Health Psychology
This model of health argues that health is influenced by biological, psychological, and social factors.
The Biopsychosocial Model
Name one of the three requirements for establishing causality.
Covariance, Temporal Precedence, Internal Validity
This is stress that is specific to a person's marginalized identity.
Minority Stress
This age group is least likely to seek medical care, partially due to a belief that they are invincible.
Young Adults
This attitude, involving an optimistic outlook, a belief that the cancer is controllable, and the use of active coping strategies, predicts better adjustment in early-stage cancer.
Fighting Spirit
In the biomedical model, these people are viewed as the authority on health.
Doctors
In intervention health research, this kind of control condition is an inactive substance or condition that has the appearance of an active treatment.
Placebo
Psychology research tends to use this kind of sample due to convenience, resulting in research findings that are not representative of the general population.
WEIRD Samples
This approach from the dual process theory of decision making is slow and resource-intensive, but is less subject to bias and more likely to get the correct answer.
Analytical Approach/System 2
Smoking
Diagnosis/Cure/Treatment
Measured in descriptive health research questions, this is when multiple diseases or conditions are present in the same person.
Comorbidity
One way that race influences health is through targeted marketing of this harmful commodity.
Tobacco
This is when a provider uses information or access to social services to control a patient.
Coercion
These programs aim to change a cardiac patient's lifestyle to lower risk for subsequent events.
Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs
Today, the leading causes of death are mostly chronic diseases. In the 1900s, the leading causes of death were this kind of disease.
This research design tests causal relationships, but does not involve random assignment of participants to conditions.
Quasi-Experimental Design
For a health difference to be a health disparity, it must meet these two requirements.
Systematic and Historical
This type of communication involves open-ended questions, a warm disposition, encouraging emotion expression, and demonstrating interest in the patient’s life.
Patient-Centered Communication
The search for meaning, gaining a sense of mastery, and the process of self-enhancement are the three themes in this theory of adjustment to chronic illness.
Cognitive Adaptation Theory
Similar to health psychology, this field is concerned with the integration of biomedical sciences with behavioral sciences.
Behavioral Medicine
This ethical principle from the Belmont Report says that no one group should disproportionately shoulder all the risks, and participants should share in the benefits.
Justice
This aspect of education is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand information and services needed to make health decisions.
Health Literacy
This heuristic is the tendency to judge a diagnosis as more likely if it readily comes to mind.
Sensory Stimulation/Reality Orientation