Time Orientation and Health Flashcards

1
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What is time orientation?

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Tendency to be motivated by one temporal frame over another

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2
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Time orientation is developed and reinforced over time, becoming a…

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Cognitive temporal bias

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3
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Time orientation is _______ and __________ over time, becoming a cognitive temporal bias

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Developed

Reinforced

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4
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Time Orientation is split into three temporal frames…

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Past
Present
Future

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5
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If you favour one temporal frame over another, it becomes a cognitive temporal bias that with chronic use becomes

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A trait-like tendency

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6
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William James suggested that we have a d…

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Different self every day

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7
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(William James) integration of temporally partitioned selves is a form of…

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Self continuity

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8
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Two major contributors to Obesity epidemic

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Physical inactivity

Unhealthy diet

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9
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Health behaviours are the prototypical…

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Self-regulation task

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10
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Self continuity is integration of t..

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Temporally partitioned selves

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11
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The ability to regulate ones behaviour is known as

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Self regulation

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12
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Self regulation involves making _________ choices

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Inter-temporal

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13
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3 behaviours that link time orientation to health?

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1) Preventative health behaviours
2) Health-promoting behaviours
3) Health-risky behaviours

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14
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Cancer and diabetes screenings, sunscreen use are all examples of…

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Preventative health behaviours

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15
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Healthy eating, exercise and stress management are all examples of…

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Health promoting behaviours

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16
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What is an example of a preventative health behaviour

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Sunscreen use

17
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What is a health risky behaviour example?

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Smoking

18
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Health-risky behaviours are _______ time orientation and _____________ orientation

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Present

Low future

19
Q

Health promoting behaviours are _____________ time orientation

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Future

20
Q

Health behaviour intentions are inherently _________________

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Future oriented

21
Q

Preventative health behaviours, health promoting behaviours and health risky behaviours are all…

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Inter-temporal choices

22
Q

Hall, Fong and Sansone (2015)

Cross-sectional study of BMI

What was the aim?

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Researchers wanted to map BMI onto time orientation

23
Q

Hall, Fong and Sansone (2015)

Cross-sectional study of BMI

Pps with high levels of future time orientation were…

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Less likely to be obese

24
Q

Hall, Fong and Sansone (2015)

Cross-sectional study of BMI

What was thought to explain the relationship between time orientation and BMI?

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Health behaviours

25
Q

One study suggested that non-smokers have more future time orientation. However, this explanation is limited by…

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Cultural differences

26
Q

Smoking behaviours are influenced by…

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A number of different factors

27
Q

Smoking behaviours are influenced by a number of different factors

For example, in China

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Smokers are MORE likely to have FTO

28
Q

Temporal framing and Type 2 diabetes study (Orwell & Haggar, 2006)

What was found from high CFC individuals?

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More sensitive to distant consequences

Both positive and negative

29
Q

Temporal framing/T2 Diabetes tudy. Which individuals were more likely to be…

More sensitive to distant consequences

Both positive and negative

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High CDC (future-oriented)

30
Q

Why might time perspective be difficult to change?

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Temporal bias that has developed over time through choice-reward framework

31
Q

Why might researchers try and sell to peoples individual time-perspectives rather than trying to change them?

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TP’s are very difficult to change as they are a temporal bias

32
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One study looking at message framing for health messages

What was found for LOW CFC individuals (high in present) when the message was framed as immediate?

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Intentions almost identical to those with high FT

33
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One study looking at message framing for health messages

What was found for LOW CFC individuals (high in present)

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When message framed as immediate benefits

Intentions similar to high FT

34
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One study looking at message framing for health messages

In what condition did present-time oriented people’s intentions match high-future-oriented peoples?

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When message was framed as having immediate benefits

35
Q

Don’t change the time orientation, change the _________

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Message

36
Q

We naturally and non-naturally assign ________ categories to help add more ________ and _________ to the flow of our experiences

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Temporal
Structure
Order

37
Q

Time orientation is primarily linked to health via

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Its association with health behaviours

38
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Zimbardo and Boyd (1999) believed that if you favour one temporal frame over another, ti becomes a…

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Cognitive temporal bias