Exam 8: Theories, Models and Interventions

Which theory was developed by Rogers (1975) to describe coping with a health threat in light of two appraisal processes, threat appraisal and coping appraisal? It introduces a most basic human emotion into health protection: fear.

In the health belief model (HBM), the likelihood of a behaviour is influenced by cues to action that are reminders or prompts to take action consistent with an intention. These cues to action can be ______.

The Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) is based on the assumption that ______.

Critics have suggested that individual-level theories and models of social cognition are ______.

Multiple studies concur that the TPB, and its many extensions and adaptations, fail to account for ______ percent of the variability in health behaviour.

The 'Transtheoretical Model' (TTM), otherwise known as the 'Stages of Change Model', was developed by Prochaska and DiClemente (1983). The TTM hypothesizes 6 stages of change, which people are alleged to progress through in making a change, these are ______.

Weinman et al. (1996) developed the ______ to assess the cognitive representation of illness in the CSM.

The SCT proposes that ______.

What aspect of the Social Cognitive theory is described here? ______ is a person's belief that they have behavioural competence in a particular situation ('I can do it'). ______ is related to whether or not an individual will undertake particular goal-directed activities ('I will do it'), the amount of energy that he or she will put into their effort ('I want to do it') and the length of time that the individual will persist in striving to achieve a particular goal ('I need to do it').