Quiz 3 Behavioral Theories

What is the determinant for the TTM?

Readiness

What is the stage in which an individual is not ready and has no intention of doing something?

Pre-Contemplative Stage

What is the stage in which an individual is thinking about the change (within 6 months)?

Contemplative Stage

What is the stage in which an individual is ready to do something (within the next 30 days)?

Determinism/Preparation Stage

What is the stage in which an individual is taking action and doing the new behavior?

Action Stage

What is the stage in which an individual is sustaining said change for at least 6 months?

Maintenance Stage

What is the stage in which an individual fails to maintain their goal?

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Name all of the “behavioral theories” (including models, frameworks, etc) we’ve learned about thus far?

Socioecological Model, Theory of Planned Behavior, Health Belief Model, Transtheoretical Model.

What’s the common trend amongst each “behavioral theory” that we’ve learned?

Each “behavioral theory” are used to evaluate behaviors and understand how different factors affect the actions of individuals or groups.

What is something that is used to both describe and explain, is the most complex and is testable that helps predict and examine which factors influence your outcome?

A theory

What is something that describes but doesn’t explain, is commonly used to describe or even simplify the process of translating research into practice?

A model

What is something that describes but doesn’t explain factors believed to influence an outcome that provides a big picture overview of various categories?

A framework

What component of the TPB is about a person’s belief of what others think about the behavior and the motivation to conform to perceived norms?

Attitude

What component of the TPB is about a person’s belief of what others think about the behavior and the motivation to conform to perceived norms?

Subjective norms

What component of the TPB is about a person’s belief about the factors that make it easy or hard to perform the behavior?

Perceived control

What component of the TPB is about the intention to perform a behavior influenced by attitude, subjective norm, and perceived control?

Behavior intention

What is the most predictive of actual behavior?

Behavior intention

What is the determinant for TPB?

Attitude

What does TPB focus on?

Rational, cognitive decision-making processes.

What was the original name for TPB?

Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA)