Heath & Social Psychology

Question 1

Biopsychosocial Factors

Answer 1

Affect health & illness via direct impact on physiological processes or indirectly influence on health behaviours

Question 2

Health Psychology

Answer 2

The study of psycho-social processes in health, illness, healthcare and health promotion
Treating the psychological consequences of illness

Question 3

Health-promoting behaviours

Answer 3

regular exercise
healthy eating
sleep hygiene
immunisations

Question 4

Health-risk behaviours

Answer 4

binge drinking
drink-driving
drug abuse
smoking
sedentary behaviour

Question 5

Why are theoretical models made?

Answer 5

in an attempt to explain and thereby predict human behaviour
help to design targeted interventions

Question 6

Health Belief Model

Answer 6

Patients perception of illness and its consequences

Question 7

5 factors in the Health Belief Model

Answer 7

Perceived Susceptibility
Perceived Severity
Perceived Benefits & Perceived Barriers
Cues to action
Self efficacy

Question 8

Critiques of HBM

Answer 8

• Assumes that human beings are rational decision makers
• Doesn’t account for emotions
• May oversimplify the threat

Question 9

Theory of Planned Behaviour

Answer 9

Attitude toward the behaviour
Subjective Norm
Perceived Behavioural Control

Question 10

Critique of the TPB

Answer 10

Doesn’t account for emotions
Does intention always lead to behaviour

Question 11

Psychosocial

Answer 11

pertaining to the influence of social factors on an individual’s mind or behavior, and to the interrelation of behavioral and social factors

Question 12

Social Psychology

Answer 12

Examines human behaviour in a social context
Study of how people influence other’s behaviour beliefs and attitudes

Question 13

Social Cognition

Answer 13

Process by which people select, interpret and remember social information

Question 14

Social Influence

Answer 14

Processes through which we are
influenced by others (e.g., obedience, conformity, bystander effect, social comparison, mass hysteria

Question 15

Social Interaction

Answer 15

Processes at play in interaction with others (e.g., prejudice; aggression, attraction)

Question 16

Key processes in social influence

Answer 16

Conformity
Social Roles
Bystander Effect
Obedience

Question 17

Normative Influence (asch effect)

Answer 17

Group effects that arise from individuals’ desire to be liked, accepted and approved
of by others

Question 18

Informational Influences

Answer 18

Group effects that arise from individuals’ desire to be correct and right and to understand how best to act in each situation

Question 19

Uniformity of agreement

Answer 19

If all confederates gave wrong answer,
conformity high.

Question 20

Dissention

Answer 20

If one confederate gave different answer from group, subject less likely to conform

Question 21

Deindividuation

Answer 21

when stripped of usual identity/feel anonymous > makes people more vulnerable to social influence > may behave uncharacteristically

Question 22

Bystander Effect

Answer 22

The decrease in offers of assistance
that occurs as number of bystanders increases

Question 23

Diffusion of responsibility

Answer 23

Diminished sense of personal
responsibility to act because others are seen as equally responsible

Question 24

Affective Empathy

Answer 24

process in which humans directly/subjectively experience and share emotional state of another

Question 25

Cognitive Empathy

Answer 25

process of identifying with another person’s perspective from an objective stance

Question 26

Ambiguity of situation

Answer 26

If confused about how to behave we look for cues and are likely to do what ‘experts’ tell us