PSY 320 Lecture : PPT Notes - Behavior Change.pdf
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F e b r u a r y 5 , 2 0 1 3. Overview: health promotion, health behaviors, models of behavior change. Good physical health and overall wellness are personal and collective achievements. The individual develops and maintains good health habits. Collective: health professionals educate individuals and communities about how to maintain healthy lifestyles, effective health policy enforces health promotion. Behaviors undertaken by people to enhance or maintain their health. Firmly established health-related behaviors that are often performed automatically. i. e. , wearing a seatbelt, regular exercise, sleeping behaviors. Instilling good health habits and changing poor health habits. Combating risk factors for illness before illness develops. People are more likely to do things for which they will receive an immediate reward. We make judgments of others based on their behavior: they engage in a behavior because they are that kind of person, when we do something, we think about the situation that prompted our behavior.
