Assessing Your Attitudes and Norms towards Physical Activity

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The health belief model was initially developed to explain why people fail to adopt which of the following strategies?

Dietary strategies

Disease prevention strategies (correct)

Exercise strategies

Mental health strategies

Which of the following is NOT one of the core beliefs proposed by the health belief model?

Perceived severity

Perceived benefits (correct)

Perceived susceptibility

Perceived barriers

Which theory proposes that people will be more motivated to act in healthy ways if they believe they are susceptible to a particular negative health outcome?

Self-determination theory

The transtheoretical model

The health belief model (correct)

The theory of planned behaviour

According to the health belief model, which of the following is NOT one of the core beliefs that influence behavior?

Perceived barriers (B) Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a factor that can influence a person's motivation to act according to the health belief model?

Perceived barriers to adopting the behavior (A) Signup and view all the answers

What can spur a person to adopt a behavior according to the health belief model?

Both internal and external cues (C) Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following variables is NOT typically included in studies of the health belief model?

Perceived susceptibility (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main focus of the Health Belief Model?

Modifiable psychological influences on behavior (A) Signup and view all the answers

What was the most common technique used to change behavior in the studies reviewed by Jones et al. (2014)?

Providing information about health consequences (B) Signup and view all the answers

What were the results of the cluster randomized control trial conducted by Tola et al. (2016) in Ethiopia?

Patients receiving the intervention had lower non-adherence to TB treatment (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is one criticism/limitation of the Health Belief Model?

Limited consensus about how to operationalize the model variables and the links between them (C) Signup and view all the answers

Which intervention had a significant effect on objectively-assessed attendance?

Control belief intervention (C) Signup and view all the answers

What did Ajzen argue about the focus of the intervention?

The intervention should have focused on making sure participants were able to carry out their intentions (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of implementation intentions in closing the intention-behaviour gap?

Implementation intentions can increase the correlation between intentions and behaviour (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the criticism about the model's hypotheses?

The model's hypotheses are just common sense statements that can't be falsified (B) Signup and view all the answers

According to the theory of planned behaviour, which of the following is NOT one of the factors that predict our behavioural intentions?

Beliefs about the outcomes of the behavior (D) Signup and view all the answers

What percentage of variation in health behavior did the TPB variables account for, according to McEachan et al.'s meta-analysis?

44.3% (C) Signup and view all the answers

According to Steinmetz et al.'s meta-analysis, which of the following interventions was MOST effective in changing attitudes?

Modeling of the behavior (B) Signup and view all the answers

According to Sniehotta et al.'s study, which of the following interventions had NO effect on intentions or behavior?

None of the above (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main argument of Sniehotta et al. (2014)?

The theory of planned behaviour is no longer a plausible theory of behaviour or behaviour change. (C) Signup and view all the answers

According to Ajzen (2015), what is his main critique of Sniehotta et al. (2014)?

They misinterpret negative findings of poorly conducted studies as evidence against the theory. (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the overall debate about in the text?

The usefulness of the theory of planned behaviour in psychology. (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the conclusion of Ogden (2015)?

The theory of planned behaviour should be retired. (D) Signup and view all the answers