PSY BEH 138H- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 62 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Low ses -> poorer health of children regardless of ethnicities, relationship is stronger for minority children: due to factors such as treatment, discrimination, marginalization. Social cognitive models: attempt to explain some of the conscious and unconscious cognitive processes that influence behavior, health belief model, social cognitive model. Child health psychology: why separate adult health psychology from children health psychology, parents influence children. Independence and personal responsibility: expression of health issues, risk of accidents, vulnerability and exposure to illness and disease. Motor development and health behavior: developmental changes, physical maturation and growth. Health and illness: two ends of a spectru(cid:373) , health illness. Developmental levels of the understanding of illness (bibace & walsh, 1980: magical level (association of symptoms, phenomenism. Illness is related to a symptom(s) (e. g. a cold = a runny nose: contagion. Illnesses are related to symptom(s) but there is no cause and effect made: concrete level (sequence, contamination.
