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| psychology devoted to understanding pschological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill and how they respond when they are ill |
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| drillin holes in the skulls of diseased indiviuals to allow evils spirits to escape |
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| humoral theory of illness |
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| theory asserting that disease is caused by an imbalance in the flour fluids or humors of the body |
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| doctrine of dual spheres of mind and body |
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| cellular theory of illness |
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| ideea that illness and disease result from abnormalities within individual cells |
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| reductionistic view of illness, reducing disease to biological causes at the level of individual cells |
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| idea that changes in physiology mediate the relationship between unconscious conflicts and illness |
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| idea that health and illness stem form a combination of biological, psychological and social factors |
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| theory which states health behaviors are predicted by the perceived suscetibility to the behavior threat |
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| person perception that he or she is likely to contract a particular illness |
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| an individual's perception of the imoact a particular illness would have on his or her life |
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| beneficial consequences associated with terminating a negative health behavior |
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| cost of terminating a health behavior |
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| ancillary factors that influence whether or not a person is willing to begin a helathy behavior or terminate an unhealthy one |
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| a person conviction that he or she can perform the action's necessary to produce an intended behavior |
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| protectio motivation theory of health |
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| the health belief model plus self efficacy |
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| theory of reasoned action |
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| the theory that behaviors stem from behavioral intentions, which are a function of a person's attitude toward behavior and his or her perception of the subjective norms surrounding the behavior |
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| associations between actions or objects and evaluations |
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| someone's perception of how significant other individuals will view a particular helath behavior and the motivation to comply with the deires of those others |
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| theory of planned behavior |
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| the theory of reasoned action plus self efficacy |
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| statistical index that reflects a person's weight in pounds divided by the height in inches squared |
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| a condition characterized by an excessive accumlation of body fat in excess of 30 percent in women and 20 percent in men |
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| a body mass indx between 25 percent and 30 percent depending on age and gather |
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| the value of some variable that the bodynis trying to maintain such as temperature |
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| susceptible gene hypothesis |
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| theory that certain genes increase but do not gurantee the development of a paricular trait or characteristic |
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| process by which people attempt to control he impression that others form of them also called impression management |
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| the tendency to use or abuse alcohol to adegre that leads to social or occuptional dysfunction |
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| people who are not physioloically addicted to alcohol but still have a number of problems stemming from alcohol consumption |
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| a process by which people set themselves up to fail when success is uncertain to preserve their self esteem |
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| when people quit drinking or greatly reduce their alcohol intake without any formal method of intervention |
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| the process during which an alcoholic dries out |
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| introduction of something as a means of dicouraging a negative health habit |
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| a challenge to a person's capacity to adapt to inner and outer demands, hich may be physiologically arousing, emotionally taxing, and cognitively and behaviorally activating |
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| general adaption syndrome |
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| selye's model of stress the three stages of alarm, resistance and exhaustion |
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| the first stage i the process of stress and coping in which the person decides whether the situation is benign, stressful or irrelvant |
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| second stage in the process of stressa and coping during which the person evaluates the options and decides how to respond |
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| predicting emotional reactions to future events |
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| situations that often lead to stress including life events, catastrophes and daily hassles |
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| rare, unexpected disasters such as earthquakes and other trumatic events that affect a group of people |
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| the stress people experience while trying to adapt to a new culture |
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| the small but irritating demands that characterize daily life |
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| the study of the interactions among behavior, the nervous system, the endocrine system, and immune system |
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| a system of cells throughout the body that fights disease |
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| protein molecules that attach themselves to foreign agents in the body, marking them for destruction |
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| a pattern of behavior and emotions that includes ambition, competitiveness, impatience, and hostility |
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| the ways peole deal with stressful situations also called coping mechanism |
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| the tendency to exert minimal effort to escape streeful social and economic circumstance |
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| the tendency among members of minority groups to work hard and cope actively despite difficult circumstances |
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| relationship wiht others that provide resources for coping with stress |
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