Exam 4: Individual Health Behavior Theories

The process of weighing the pros and cons in known under the Transtheoretical Model as which of the following?

Like the Health Belief Model, the Theory of Reasoned Action/Theory of Planned Behavior focuses on rational, cognitive decision-making processes.

By subjective norms, which of the following refers to perceptions about whether the behavior is likely to be approved or disapproved by the social groups of influence for the person who is deciding whether to do the behavior?

The Precaution Adoption Process Model takes the same basic idea that led to the Health Belief Model and applies it to a general category of behavior.

The influence of which of the following led to the addition of the sixth component of the Health Belief Model, a person's belief that his or her ability to take the action, commonly referred to as self-efficacy?

In the Precaution Adoption Process Model, deciding not to act is accounted for as a stage.

Most people who have made a health behavior change stay somewhere in the action stage.

In which process may a person learn something to do as a substitute for the behavior they want to change and be called on to counter the impulses to engage in the less-desirable behavior?

The Health Belief Model is known as which of the following, which refers to the assumption that people will engage in healthy behavior if they value the outcome related to the behavior and they think the behavior is likely to result in that outcome?

For people in which stage of behavior change are programs that provide action steps appropriate?