Biological
This is the basic unit of the nervous system responsible for transmitting information throughout the body.
What is a neuron?
This model describes the process of retaining, retrieving, and using information over time.
What is memory?
This term refers to the shared beliefs, values, and practices of a group of people.
What is culture?
This model explains how a person's beliefs about health and illness can influence their health behaviors.
What is the health belief model?
This type of research involves collecting data through interviews, surveys, or observations to understand a particular phenomenon.
What is qualitative research?
The part of the brain primarily responsible for regulating basic bodily functions such as heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure.
What is the brainstem?
This cognitive concept refers to a mental framework that helps individuals organize and interpret information.
What is a schema?
This process involves adapting to a new culture while maintaining one’s original cultural identity.
What is acculturation?
This approach emphasizes the role of emotional responses, such as fear, in motivating individuals to engage in health-promoting behaviors.
What is the fear arousal approach?
This research design aims to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between variables by manipulating one variable and observing the effects on another.
What is a true experiment?
This neurotransmitter is primarily associated with mood regulation and is often linked to conditions such as depression when in imbalance.
What is serotonin?
This term describes the process of assessing the value of available options before making a decision.
What is decision-making?
This concept explains how cultural dimensions, such as individualism versus collectivism, affect behavior and thinking patterns.
What are cultural dimensions?
This term refers to programs designed to promote and maintain healthy behaviors among individuals or communities.
What are health interventions?
This term refers to the consistency and dependability of a research study's measures or results.
What is reliability?
Describe the process by which a neuron transmits an electrical signal down its axon, including the terms depolarization and repolarization.
What is an action potential?
This theory suggest that memory is made up of three distinct stores: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.
What is the multi-store model of memory?
This sociocultural concept describes the way a person’s behavior is influenced by the presence or absence of others in a social context.
What is social influence?
This concept involves the physical and mental state of an individual, which can be affected by lifestyle choices, stress, and genetics.
What is well-being?
This ethical principle requires researchers to inform participants about the nature of the study and obtain their consent before participation.
What is informed consent?
Explain the role of hormones in influencing behavior and provide an example of a specific hormone that impacts psychological processes.
What is cortisol?
In cognitive psychology, this phenomenon refers to the tendency to remember the first and last items in a list better than the ones in the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
This theory examines how people from different cultures perceive and interpret human behavior, highlighting the impact of cultural context on psychological processes.
What is cultural psychology?
This theory suggests that behavior change occurs in stages, including precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.
What is the stages of change model (or transtheoretical model)?
This statistical method is used to determine the likelihood that a result is due to chance rather than a true effect in the study population.
What is statistical significance?