A model of health which includes biological, social, and psychological aspects.
What is the biopsychosoical model?
These organs controls the water balance in the body
What are the kidneys?
A time of specific susceptibility to forming or breaking a health habit, such as smoking in adolescence.
What is a window of vulnerability?
The primary cause of disability in the United States
What is obesity?
What is aerobic exercise?
A study which collects data from one group of people over multiple time points.
What is a longitudinal study?
This occurs when cholesterol and other debris form plaques in arteries
What is atherosclerosis?
An example is "When I want to eat ice cream, I will eat a bowl of carrots instead".
What is an implementation intention?
The leading cause of preventable death in the United States
What is smoking?
What is social engineering?
What is the somatic nervous system?
Vaccines are an example of this type of immunity
What is specific immunity?
Attitudes toward a specific action, subjective norms about the action, and perceived behavioral control.
This is the main focus of intervention efforts made by health psychologists, particularly in targeting children's health
What is a prevention?
This is the stage of sleep where dreams occur
What is REM sleep?
Suggesting that physical symptoms are manifestations of psychological problems
What is psychosomatic medicine?
This is the first stage of an infection
What is the incubation period?
What is relapse?
These are three techniques used in cognitive behavioral approaches
What is:
stimulus identification
cognitive restructuring
self-efficacy training
modeling
motivational interviewing
behavioral assignments
self-monitoring
social skills training
relaxation training
lifestyle rebalancing
The number of people who are sick or suffer from a particular illness is called
What is morbidity?
The type of transmission that Typhoid Mary spread typhiod through.
What is mechanical transmission?
In the transtheoretical model of behavior change, it is the stage when a person is not thinking about changing their behavior and has no motivation to change.
What is precontemplation?
This is the process in which the body adapts to drug use over time, requiring larger amounts of the drug to produce the same effects.
What is tolerance?
What are acute diseases?