Exam 18: Behavioral Factors: Access to Clean Water, Health Risks, and Infectious Diseases

__________ possesses similarities to the stages of change models because it posits a process of dissemination, which cannot help but include a chronological element.

During the 17^th century Enlightenment period, who advanced the idea of the tabula rasa, or "blank slate"-the idea that human beings come into the world with nothing and that our knowledge, our behavioral normal, and our social patterns are all learned?

For which of the following PRECEDE-PROCEED assessment phases are you most likely to need to perform data collection yourself?

Action on social determinants of health, both for vulnerable groups and the entire population, is essential to create inclusive, equitable, economically productive, and healthy societies.

Although overemphasizing shared characteristics of a specific group can be dangerous and result in __________, gaining familiarity with the population and working with its environment, dynamics, social structures, and patterns of behavior is necessary in order to develop a health promotion approach toward a population/group that is at risk for a particular health problem.

Which of the following programs, developed by the Prevention Institute (Oakland, California) with support from the U.S. Office of Minority Health, focuses on building resilient communities?

Which of the following was designated as a model program by the federal Substance Abuse and mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and is considered a research-tested intervention program by the National Cancer Institute?

Changes between baseline to follow-up data collection that are occurring simply as a result of people becoming more familiar with the evaluation surveys or questions are consistent with which type of confounding?

Before a school-based intervention is implemented, approval from which of the following is typically necessary, along with many other difficult and time-consuming efforts to gain support and approval within the school?

To determine which of the following, the typical process is to collect data about the issues you expect to change in the short term before your project begins, then collect the same kind of information at one or more points after the intervention is in place to measure the change?

Which of the following refers to the process of creating a protein from the copied gene?

The Self-Determination Theory assumes that humans are innately oriented to growth and health, and that promotion of a person's competence, autonomy, relatedness, and other supportive traits enables this "natural" tendency to shape behavior. From which branch of psychology does this idea derive?

The communications definition, "who says what in which channel to who and with what effects," introduces us to the basic layout of a communication process described by a Bell Laboratories mathematician named Claude Shannon, known as the:

The effects of which epidemic have included a decrease in average life expectancy, significant reduction in household income, decimation of educational system capacity and school attendance, a general decrease in economic production and increase in poverty, and a generation of children without parents?

The general idea that proximal causes predict most behavior and distal/ultimate causes explain it is a component of which of the following?

Which state of the REACH model revolves around improving the community environment as well as the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of influential individuals and groups?

An external event that motivates a person to act is referred to by which component of the Health Belief Model?

The Tuskegee study was an experiment, conducted from 1932 to 1972, in which poor African American men were left untreated in order to gain information about the progression of which disease?

Which of the following is an important part of such behavioral theories as the Health Belief Model, Theory of Planned Behavior, and Social Cognitive Theory (among others), all of which assume that internal processes, to one degree or another, determine behavior?

The gene-environment interaction is so complex that we don't understand all the ways in which that interaction takes place.