01:830:377 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sick Role, Adrenal Medulla, Conversion Disorder
15 Dec 2016
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Behaviors that have a strong association with disease. Prophylaxis something that people do to protect them against disease. Patients lack control and privacy (hospital psychosis people get confused and disoriented because they are removed from their everyday lives different environment) Health promotion: the encouragement of heath individuals habits. Operational definition: statement about the procedures the researcher used to measure variable (example: measuring stress through cortisol levels or self report) Steps in the research process: specify a hypothesis (must be testable, form an operational definition, collect data, analyze data, form a theory. Instead of a causing b, b could cause a. Third variable c could be causing both a and b. Correlation: measure of the strength of the association between two variables (ranges from -1. 00 to +1. 00) most never be a perfect 1 or -1 unless you cross two things with themselves. Causation: we cant speak about causation if an experiment his been conducted.
