Exam 5: Social, Cultural, and Environmental Theories Part I

Which of the following refers to the "uptake" of the behavior or technology by the intended audience?

Which of the following is a broad area of theory whose implications range from sociological and health-related applications to communications, political opinion, esoteric mathematical and systems theory applications, and others?

Which interactive process is why we have included Social Cognitive Theory as a social/environmental theory rather than an individual-oriented theory?

Which of the following began as a theoretical offshoot of behaviorism, which is a theory about how people learn that posits individual behavior as a response to conditioning?

Social Cognitive Theory has gone through several evolutions, yet all of the components ever included in the theory are still "hanging around."

Social Cognitive Theory is very complex, and because it includes so many constructs that are said to be related to behavior, it can be viewed as less of a theory than a generally related "grab-bag."

The idea of self-efficacy as a key element in how people change behavior moves beyond the mechanistic conditioning process of behaviorism and gives individuals a role in their own processes of change.

The health promotion goal of which of the following is to have people voluntarily adopt the health behavior or health technology because they come to view the behavior (or technology) as in their interest?

An ego-centered network includes reciprocal information from other members of a network.

In the 1960s, Albert Bandura and others proposed that which behaviorist principle-in which a person learns behavior through negative and positive reinforcement-also worked when the reinforcement was directed toward other people?