PSY 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sigmund Freud, Transtheoretical Model, Standard Deviation
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New models of health, humanity, industry and academy. Of the people alive in the world today, 500,000,00 will die from smoking. Four behaviors that account for 70% of chronic diseases: smoking, alcohol, diet, exercise. Passive reactive model of health: germ disease, gene disease, patients seeks help provider reacts, medicine cures disease, medicine prevents disease. Proactive and interactive models of health: behavior disease, behavior change cures disease, behavior change prevents disease. Passive reactive models of humanity: sigmund freud: biological instincts, b. f. skinner: environmental contingencies. Proactive model of humanity: biological controls, social controls, self controls change biology and/or environment. Transtheoretical model of change: precontemplation: no intention to change in near future. Contemplation: intention to change in the near future (within the next 6 months) Preparation: ready, practicing behavior, intend to start within the next 30 days. Action: recently started to change overt behavior consistently for 6 months or more. Maintenance: has overtly changed behavior consistently for 6 months or more.
