Exam 13: Theories and Models for Health Promotion and Changing Nutrition Behavior

Symbolic models have a higher level of abstraction than do physical models.

Which of the following is the use of marketing concepts and tools to increase the acceptability of social ideas or practices that employs a consumer orientation, audience analysis and segmentation, and aspects of exchange theory in seeking to increase the acceptability of a behavior in a target group?

Representations of approaches to programming that offer explanations of the processes involved are called:

Which of the following is a grass-roots community development process?

Memorization produces change in behavior.

Which of the following emphasizes the interactive nature of the effects of cognitive and other personal factors, as well as the effects of environmental events on behavior?

In the Stages of Change Model, individuals in contemplative stage have the intention to change, but have no specific plans to change soon.

In the Stages of Change Model, individuals in action stage have started to change their behavior, but the behavior change is fairly recent and may be inconsistent.

Emphasizing the interactive nature of the effects of cognitive and other personal factors and environmental events on behavior, the three major constructs/concepts in which of the following are behavioral capacity, efficacy expectations, and outcome expectations?

PRECEDE-PROCEED model provides a comprehensive guide to planning and implementing health promotion activities in:

The phases of the Healthy Community: The Process model include needs assessment, planning, doing, and renewal.

The Theory of Reasoned Action states that behavior is determined directly by a person's intention to perform the behavior.

In Wallace's personal characteristics study about the practice of osteoporosis-protective behaviors, results showed that:

The Knowledge-Attitude-Behavior Model states that a new knowledge does not leads to changes in attitude.

According to the Theory of Reasoned Action model, behavior is determined directly by a person's intention to perform the behavior.

Intentions are the instructions people give to themselves to behave in certain ways.

Words or concepts having different meanings for different people are part of which type of model?

PRECEDE-PROCEED is an acronym for the components of the model. PRECEDE stands for Predisposing, Reinforcing, and Enabling Constructs in Educational/Environmental Diagnosis and Evaluation. As its name implies, it represents the process that precedes, or leads up to, an intervention. PROCEED stands for Policy, Regulatory, and Organizational Constructs in Educational and Environmental Development.

Research suggests that some types of knowledge are more motivating than others. Rogers refers to "awareness" knowledge as the kind that captures people's attention, increases awareness, and enhances motivation, whereas "how-to" knowledge is the kind people need when they are already motivated.

In the Stages of Change Model, individuals in maintenance stage have maintained consistent behavior change for a long time. The newly acquired behavior has become a part of their lives.