Chapter 5: Explaining Health Behaviour Flashcards
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What are the two factors that are predictive influences on health?
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Distal (e.g., culture, environment, ethnicity, socio-economic status, age, gender, and personality.
Proximal (e.g., specific beliefs and attitudes toward health-risk and health-protective behaviour.
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What is Social Cognition?
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A term used to describe how people encode, process, interpret, remember then learn and use information in social interactions in order to make sense of the behaviour of others.
Shape our judgements (including prejudices and stereotypes), attitudes and responses, and in turn shaping our behaviour.
