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Health Psychology Book Cover
Health Psychology, 5/e
Shelley Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles
Health Behaviors

Learning Objectives



1

Define health promotion and describe the factors that have fueled the movement toward health promotion in the United States.
2

Summarize trends in the changing pattern of disease in the United States since the turn of the 20th century.
3

Define health behaviors, health habits, and primary prevention.
4

Summarize the relationship of individual difference variables, social factors, emotional factors, cognitive factors, perceived symptoms, and factors related to access to medical care to health behaviors.
5

Describe health-habit factors that undermine health practices.
6

Summarize the findings of research investigating the success of health promotion and primary prevention efforts across the lifespan and with at-risk people.
7

Describe ethnic and gender differences in health behaviors.
8

Summarize the effectiveness of attitudinal approaches and the use of fear appeals in changing attitudes and health behaviors.
9

Describe the components of the health belief model and explain how useful it is in predicting and changing health behaviors.
10

Define self-efficacy and explain the relationship between self-efficacy and health behaviors.
11

Describe the components of the Theory of Planned Behavior and evaluate its usefulness in predicting health behaviors.
12

Describe why attitude change may not result in behavior change.
13

Describe the basic principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy.
14

Define self-observation and self-monitoring and describe their use in cognitive-behavioral therapy.
15

Define classical conditioning, unconditioned response, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, and conditioned stimulus. Describe the use of classical conditioning in cognitive-behavioral therapy.
16

Define operant conditioning and differentiate between different schedules of reinforcement. Describe the use of operant conditioning in cognitive-behavioral therapy.
17

Define modeling, and describe its use in cognitive-behavioral therapy.
18

Define discriminative stimulus. Describe the use of stimulus-control interventions in cognitive-behavioral therapy.
19

Define self-reinforcement, self-reward, and self-punishment. Describe the use of self-reinforcement in cognitive-behavioral therapy.
20

Define contingency contracting, and describe its use in cognitive-behavioral therapy.
21

Define covert self-control, cognitive restructuring, and self-talk. Describe the use of covert self-control in cognitive-behavior therapy.








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