lecture 15:

Question 1

health psychology

Answer 1

• study of psychosocial processes in health illness, healthcare and promotion
• understand/explain health behaviours to develop effective interventions

Question 2

biopsychosocial factos on health/illness/wellbeing

Answer 2

-psychosocial factors affect health and illness via direct impact on physiological process or indirectly via influence on health behaviours
- illness also influences psychosocial factors

Question 3

role of health psychologists

Answer 3

• focus on health promotion/maintenance and psychological aspects of prevention and treatment.
• clinal work and research

Question 4

key components theory of planned behaviour

Answer 4

Intention is affected by:
- attitude toward behaviour
- subjecgtive norm (context/culture that a infividual functions within)
- perceived behaviour control
intention impacts behaviour which is also impacted by perceived behaviour control

Question 5

health belief model

Answer 5

health behaviours is affected by
* perceived threat (susceptibility and severity)
* perveived benefits/barriers (gain or lose)
* cues to action (external/internal)
* self efficacy (belief in self ability to do behaviour)

Question 6

issues with health belief model

Answer 6

• very static
• assumes humans are ration decison makers
• oversimplifies role of the threat
• limited account of social factors
• doesn’t account for emotions

Question 7

critique of theory of planned behaviour

Answer 7

• doesn’t account for emotions
• intention doesn’t always lead to behaviour