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Dr. Megan Pejsa-Reitz PSYC 385: Health Psychology Exam #1 Study guide Exam #1 will cover chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4. Exam will be 40 multiple choice questions (10 from each chapter) and each worth 2.5 points (total exam is worth 100 points). Anything from lecture or the textbook is fair game on the exam. This study guide serves to support your efforts to study for the exam. You are encouraged to pay special attention to the following topics:  Illness-wellness continuum - In this illness-wellness continuum, moving from the center toward the left means that health is becoming worse and treatment is needed. - Moving to the right of the center means that our awareness, our education, and our activities are promoting greater health and well-being,  What is health psychology? - Healthy psychology is focused on the psychological and behavioral aspects of physical and mental health. - Health psychology is devoted to understanding the psychological influences on what it means to be healthy, how and why we become ill, and how we cope with illness. - Health psychology is the field of study focused on understanding the biological, psychological, and social influences on health and illness, with the aims of promoting health, preventing illness, and improving health care systems and policies.  Mission/purposes of health psychology Missions: - To promote and maintain health - Preventative medicine: Efforts to maintain well-being and offset disease - Chronic disorders: Disorders that persist or worsen over time - Acute disorders: Disorders that have an abrupt onset and short duration  Epidemiology / epidemiological research - The field of Epidemiology considers the factors that are correlated with the disease.  Biopsychosocial model  Systems theory  Subjective vs. objective health  Chronic illness treatment

Dr. Megan Pejsa-Reitz PSYC 385: Health Psychology Exam #1 Study guide  What are risk genes?  What is evidence-based practice? -  Know the definitions and differences between mortality rate, morbidity, and etiology  What is incidence?  What is prevalence?  Quantitative vs qualitative research  What is a descriptive study?  Independent vs dependent variables  What is a positive correlation? Negative correlation?  Correlation coefficient values  Cross-section research design  Epigenetics  Health promotion  How to develop healthy habits  Common-sense model of illness  Health beliefs model  The transtheoretical model of behavior change  Neophobia  Self-efficacy  Benefits of exercise  Neuroplasticity

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