NURS1003 - Module 1

Question 1

What does health psychology explore

Answer 1

The theories that attempt to explain why individuals engage in behaviours that maintain enhance or threaten their health and the theories that suggest strategies for intervention

Question 2

What’s the main aim of Heath psychology

Answer 2

The promotion of and maintenance of well-being

Question 3

What do health psychologist specialise in

Answer 3

Understanding the relationships between psychological factors and health/ illness and practice in health promotion and clinical health

Question 4

What is locus of control ( Rotter)

Answer 4

An individual’s belief as to whether outcomes or events in their life are brought about by themselves (Internal LOC), powerful others or are random (External LOC)

Question 5

What is Self Efficacy (Bandura)

Answer 5

An individual’s perceived ability to perform a certain task or achieve a specific goal in each situations

Question 6

What is the study of human development

Answer 6

The scientific study of qualitative and quantitative ways people change over time

Question 7

What is human development influenced by

Answer 7

Characteristics people are born with (traits), those they acquire through their experiences and the environment in which they live (states)

Question 8

What are the four parenting styles

Answer 8

Authoritative, Permissive/ Neglectful, Authoritarian, Unloved/ Neglectful

Question 9

What is an authoritative parenting style

Answer 9

A style that’s high in demandingness as well as responsiveness

Question 10

What’s a permissive/ indulgent parenting style

Answer 10

One that’s high in responsiveness but low in demandingness (not a good thing)

Question 11

What is authoritarian parenting

Answer 11

One that’s high in demandingness but low is responsiveness

Question 12

What’s uninvolved / neglectful parenting

Answer 12

One that’s low in both responsiveness and demandingness

Question 13

Infants develop in a “…” And “…” Way

Answer 13

Cephalocaudal and proximal-distal

Question 14

What does it mean to say that infants develop in a cephalocaudal and proximal-distal way

Answer 14

They develop from their heads first towards their feet and from their centre towards their limbs

Question 15

Physical developmental milestones for 0-3 months

Answer 15

While on tummy pushes up onto arms, on tummy can lift and hold head up, moves their fist from closed to open, moves legs and arms off surface when excited

Question 16

Physical developmental milestones for 4-6 months

Answer 16

Use hands to support while sitting, rolls from tummy to back and vice versa, accepts weight with legs while standing with support, reaches for toys, plays with feet, transfers toys from one hand to another

Question 17

Socioemotional milestones for 0-6 months

Answer 17

Visually tracts toys and faces, can be calmed, begin to communicate their emotions, begin to become very bonded with primary caregiver

Question 18

Socioemotional miles 7-12 months

Answer 18

Begin to listen and engage with songs and people, can crawl, see longer distances, can turn pages, use consonant sounds in babbling

Question 19

What is Bowlby’s theory of attachment

Answer 19

Theory that suggests that children come into the world biologically pre-programmed to form attachments with others, because this will help them to survive

Question 20

What signs do children display to show they’re secure in their attachment

Answer 20

Are happy and secure, are eager to explore their surroundings as they know they can trust their caregiver to be there for them, may become distressed at caregivers absence but understand caregiver will return

Question 21

What kind of behaviour fosters secure attachment in children

Answer 21

Consistent behaviour which is sensitive to the needs of the child

Question 22

How do children who have developed a anxious-avoidant attachment act

Answer 22

As they do not trust their caregiver to fulfil their needs they act in different to their caregivers presence or absence, they are not explorative and are emotionally distant

Question 23

What behaviour fosters anxious-avoidant attachment

Answer 23

Caregivers behaviour which is disengaged from her child and emotionally distant

Question 24

How do children who developed anxious resistant (ambivalent) act

Answer 24

Show a mixture of anger and helplessness towards their caregiver, act passively and are insecure

Question 25

What behaviour fosters anxious-resistant (ambivalent) attachment

Answer 25

Inconsistent behaviour from the caregiver, at times they may be responsive and at times unresponsive towards the child

Question 26

What category exists for children who don’t fit first three and how do they act

Answer 26

Disorganised/ Disorientated attachment, can act depressed, angry, passive or apathetical

Question 27

What behaviour fosters disorganised/ disorientated attachment

Answer 27

Caregivers acting in varying extremes such as alternating between passivity and aggression or from acting scared to being threatening

Question 28

What happens to children who have disorganised / disorientated attachment

Answer 28

They perceive their environment as dangerous and therefore the often exhibit slow developmental behaviours in language and social skills

Question 29

What is the biomedical model of health

Answer 29

The biomedical model assets that normal behaviour is a consequence of equilibrium (health) and abnormal behaviour (illness) is a consequence of disequilibrium (pathology)

Question 30

What are the strengths of the biomedical model

Answer 30

Allowing us to discover things like pathogens, antibiotics, make advancements in genetic-understanding disorders

Question 31

What critiques of the biomedical model are there

Answer 31

Fails to acknowledge the many variable ways that health can be impacted by either by environment, social or psychological factors, treatments may treat symptoms but not cure the disease and so on