Lernmaterialien für Chapter 10 Health and Illnesses an der University of Groningen

the observable strategies in interventions that relate to the psychological processes that are involved in psychological and behavioural change. 

persuasion of an individual through a message that is adjusted by a computer to highlight important individual characteristics. 

a class of theoretical models that distinguish a conscious and rational psychological system from an unconscious and automated psychological system. 

stresses the danger of a certain action to induce fear and recommends a specific action (e.g. quit smoking) to avert the danger. 

ideas about the manifestation, the consequences of, and the control over a specified illness 

intentions to engage in a specified action when a specific situation occurs 

the number of years individuals can be expected to live in a certain population, computed on the basis of the observed age of dying in that population. 

the framing of outcomes in persuasive messages by stressing either the gains that follow an action or the losses that will follow in the case of no action. 

the gathering of individual data on multiple occasions throughout the day. 

the drive that energizes a person’s actions. 

one’s perception of how negative it is to suffer from a certain disease 

one’s estimate of the risk to contract a certain disease.