Relacionar Columnas PSYC 365 Ch 1 VocabVersión en línea Ch 1 Vocab por Spencer Leon 1 Perceived control 2 Health Psychology 3 Malignant neoplasms 4 Subjective norms 5 Cost-gain belief 6 Monitors 7 Health belief 8 Germ Theory 9 Response efficacy belief 10 Psychoneuroimmunology 11 Gradient of Reinforcement 12 Blunters 13 Type A 14 Biopsychosocial approach 15 Immunocompetence The study of the relationship between psychological states and the functioning of the immune system. A pattern often found in cardiac patients characterized by time urgency, achievement orientation, and hostility. A model that suggests that biological, psychological, and social factors are all involved in any given state of health or illness Information seekers Assessment of the costs associated with a course of action compared to the benefit of the individual's health Beliefs regarding what others think we should do and the extent to which we are motivated to go along with these people Perception that a threat-reducing strategy will work Information avoiders Compilation of all that psychology has to offer to the diagnosis and treatment of illness as well as to people’s attempts to maintain health and well-being Miller's explanation of the gradual weakening of a behaviour the further it gets in time from the reinforcement of that behaviour. Belief that a specific behaviour is within one's control Extent to which our immune system is functioning properly to ward off microorganisms Something we believe to be true concerning our health Discovery that many illnesses are caused by the activity of microorganisms, such as bacteria Cancerous growths that may be treated by radiation and chemical therapy