PSY 348 Lecture 12: PSY348 Lecture 12 &13
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Ranking of causes of death in the us: (top 10) Taking measures to combat risk factors for illness before it has a chance to develop. Strategies: getting people to alter their problematic health behaviors, keeping people from developing poor health habits in the first place. Why is it hard to change health behaviors: consequences seem distant. Instability and independence of health behaviors: health behaviors can be controlled by different factors, different factors may control the same health behavior for different people, factors controlling a health behavior change over time. Importance of adolescent health behaviors: changes made in adulthood may be too late, habits you practice as a teenager/college student may determine what chronic diseases you develop (e. g. , sun exposure/skin cancer) You are able to effectively and easily prevent aids by using condoms (high self-efficacy) vs. lung cancer is a severe disease that you are susceptible to because you smoke cigarettes.
