1. Exam Review Health Psychology

2. Response Cost Behavior decreases due to something being removed from the situation.

3. Primary prevention consists of immunizations and lifestyle changes to prevent illness in healthy people.

4. Stimulus a property of the environment that you can detect with your senses.

5. Correlation Coefficient One number that tells us about the strength and direction of the relationship between X and Y.

6. Classical Conditioning What does the organism learn? Pairing What goes with what

7. Operant Conditioning What does the organism learn? Consequences of behavior. What to do to get what you want.

8. Nomothetic Of or relating to the study or discovery of general scientific laws. Most social research is concerned with the nomothetic -- the general case -- rather than the individual. We often study individuals, but usually we are interested in generalizing to more than just the individual.

9. Cognitive Dissonance Aversive State occurs when actions are not consistent with beliefs

10. EXPERIMENT Experimenter manipulation –Independent variable –Dependent variable Two or more groups –experimental group –control group Random assignment

11. empirical: a. Relying on or derived from observation or experiment: empirical results that supported the hypothesis. b. Verifiable or provable by means of observation or experiment: empirical laws

12. Dependent Variable Presumed to be caused or affected by the independent variable. The outcome measure.

13. Parasympathetic Nervous System Promotes relaxation and functions under normal conditions.

14. Adherence Adherence and compliance refer to the patient’s ability and willingness to follow recommended health practices. In general nonadherence remains at about 50%

15. Locus of control Internal locus of control –The belief that people can control their own outcomes of fate

16. Risk factor A risk factor is any characteristic or condition that occurs with greater frequency in people with a disease than it does in people free from the disease.

17. Reliability Does the test measure consistently? Do you get the same results each time?

18. Health Belief Model Assumes that people hold certain beliefs which lead the person to a greater or lesser degree to seek help or modify high-risk behaviors. personal vulnerability the severity of the disease the costs of taking action benefits of taking action

19. The Immune System Tissues, organs and processes that protect the body from invasion by foreign material.

20. Validity Does the test measure what it is supposed to measure?

21. Dose Response Relationship A direct, consistent association between an independent variable, such as a behavior, and a dependent variable, such as a disease

22. Hardiness The ability to withstand stress

23. Theory of reasoned action Behavior is directed toward a goal or outcome and people freely choose actions that will move them toward that goal. The individual's intention to perform a behavior is a combination of –attitude toward performing the behavior –subjective norm. –perceived behavioral control.

24. Self-efficacy The belief that one is capable of performing the behaviors that will produce desired outcomes in any particular situation.

25. Transtheoretical Model People progress through five stages in changing behavior: –precontemplation –contemplation –preparation –action –maintenance

26. Reactance an aversive state that occurs when choices are limited

27. Lazrus Model of Stress It is not the life event but one’s view of it that determines the level of stress.

28. Immunity A specific, rapid response to foreign microorganisms based on previous exposure.