CSP 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Motivation, Social Cognitive Theory, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
• Course: CSP 280
• Professor: Estrada

Document Summary

Health promotion: is the idea that good health and wellness is a personal and collective achievement. Health behaviors: behaviors taken by someone to enhance or maintain their health. Successful modification of health behaviors can: reduce deaths due to lifestyle related diseases, delay the onset of disease, and death. Health habits: 6 weeks for a new habit to form (2 to 3 months??) Habit is a lot let effortlessly and much easier to get triggered; we want firmly established behaviors that are performed automatically. These health habits are usually developed at around 11 to 12 years and stabilize during those times known as the primary prevention (instilling good health habits so that illness doesn"t have a chance to develop) Barriers that modify poor health behaviors: not knowing when to intervene to change health habits. There are instability of health habits and these different factors may control the same behavior across people.