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