PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tooth Brushing
20 Mar 2017
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Health behaviours: activity that people perform to maintain or improve health. Well-behaviour: any activity people undertake to maintain or improve good health and avoid illness (ie: healthy diet, exercising, dental checkups, getting vaccinations) Symptom-based behaviour: any activity people who are ill undertake to determine the problem and find a remedy. (ie: complaining about symptoms and seeking help or advice) Sick-role behaviour: any activity people undertake to get well after deciding that they are ill and what illness is. (ie: calling in sick, taking antibiotics) Actions taken to identify and treat an illness early (to stop health problem) Actions to retard lasting damage, prevent disability and rehabilitate. What promoted health behaviours: heredity: genetic factors influence some health-related behaviours, learning: taught health-related behaviours by its consequences. Reinforcement: when we do something that brings a pleasant and wanted consequence the tendency to repeat is increased or reinforced. Extinction: if the consequences that maintain a behaviour are eliminated, the response tendency gradually weakens.
