Psychology 2990A/B Final: lecture study notes.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Acute infectious disease: quick, lead to death, rare in na, better quality of life keeps it rare. Chronic disease: slow, no cure, live with for long, preventable. How to get people to participate in healthy activities: encourage health beliefs (translates to behaviour, directly change behaviour. Basic idea: unhealthy behaviours come from unhealthy beliefs; change belief to change behaviour. With teens it is important because they don"t care about ling term negative outcomes, better to stress short term (ie smoking causes bad teeth and smell: subjective norms: Normative beliefs: what we think other people want us to do: eg family, doctor say quit, smoking friends say don"t. Motivation to comply with these other people (can be high motivation or low). Intervention time: want to add normative pressure to quit and increase motivation to comply. The cognitive behavioural approach to changing peoples unhealthy behaviours.