PSYC 2301 Lecture 11: Health Behaviours
25 Nov 2015
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Can be something that just feels like it helps your health. Engaging in a healthy lifestyle decreases your chances of preventable disease. Well behaviours - primary: maintain health (take vitamins) Symptom-based behaviours - secondary: figuring out what illness it is. People think about the action and make intentions. Beliefs and attitudes: how people think and feel about the threat or consequences of not doing the behaviour, the ability to do the behaviour, and social norms. Predicts the likelihood of an individual partaking in healthy behaviours. Goals are almost always present and we must weight the importance. One goal tends to be more salient than the other o. Temptations and desires o alcohol tends to have low desire and conflict. Sleep tends to be a large desire that conflicts with goals, whereas. Temptations in the environment can interfere with health goals o. Habits are automatic behaviours and outside of our awareness. They tend to be triggered by environments and situations.
