Exam 8: Applying Social Psychology to Health

The transactional model of stress,appraisal,and coping is based on the idea that we experience stress from ongoing transactions with the environment and that the way that we appraise or evaluate events can trigger stressful reactions.

Exaggerated fear reactions to such health risks as H1N1,SARS,and mad cow disease are likely to occur under certain conditions.What is NOT mentioned in the chapter on health (Chapter 8)as one of the conditions?

Consuelo undergoes breast reconstruction after a double mastectomy.This is an example of ______.

The first window of vulnerability is said to occur ______.

Health psychology is said to be the aggregate of the specific ______,______,and ______ contributions of the discipline of psychology.

______ involves the use of advanced skills to critically analyze and apply health information to one's own life.

Describe the three types of health prevention outlined in the health chapter.

Health prevention refers efforts that are made to encourage people to engage in healthy behaviors,such as eating a healthy and balanced diet,exercising regularly,getting enough rest,and refraining from smoking and abusing alcohol.

In 2010,Nemme and White conducted a study to examine university students' intentions to text while driving.Their study extended the theory of planned behavior by observing that two norms,not usually included in the theory,influenced students' intentions to text.Which of the following was one of the norms that Nemme and White found affected these intentions?

Which model fails to account for the fact that different people will exhibit divergent symptoms of the same illness?

In a test of the utility of the transtheoretical model,Prochaska,DiClemente,Velicer,and Rossi (1993)compared the effectiveness of four smoking cessation interventions.Which intervention led to the highest rates of quitting?

Two of the five stages in the transtheoretical stages of change model are contemplation and preparation.

A man gets screened for colon cancer.This is an example of ______.

Differentiate between the biomedical model and the biopsychosocial model.

In considering the nature of social support,the text makes a distinction between the ______ of a person's social network.

Fear appeals have been shown to have the greatest impact on people's ______,not necessarily their ______.

Against the advice of her doctor,a 33-year-old overweight woman chooses not to take steps to lose weight (e.g.,improving her diet and exercising)because she is convinced that she does not have the willpower to do so and also does not regard her present lifestyle as seriously threatening her health.The explanatory concepts of which theory are clearly reflected in this example?

Differentiate between health promotion and health prevention.

Informational appeals are based on the idea that people will be more likely to pay attention to a message and to subsequently act to change their health behavior if their related fears are activated.

Which model or theory,in particular,informs us about what individuals to target for a health change intervention?