HLTH 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ecological Psychology

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 323
• Professor: Stevenson Fergus

Document Summary

5 fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility. Plagiarism: presenting another"s ideas as one"s own without proper acknowledgement. Cite any ideas that are not your own. Facilitation: enabling another"s breach of academic integrity. Forgery: submitting counterfeit documents or statements. Falsification: misrepresentation of one"s self, one"s work, or one"s relation to the university. People and their relationship with their physical and socio- cultural surroundings. The people and everything around them: how they both interact. Behaviour setting: social and physical situations in which behaviours take place. Ecological models of health behaviour: behaviours are influenced by interpersonal, socio- cultural, and physical environmental factors, all these variables interact. Ecological psychology: influence of the outside environment on the person. Focus is on environmental causes of behaviour and to identify environmental interventions. Health promotive environment: environmental factors that may help or prevent health behaviour changes. Social ecology: influence of social context on behaviour. Multiple levels of factors influence health behaviour.