Match the Theory of Health to the Appropriate Description

question 12

Multiple Choice

Match the theory of health to the appropriate description.
-Social cognitive theory

• A) Focuses on both individual and social environmental factors as targets for health promotion interventions.
• B) Psychologists from the U.S. Public Health Services developed this model to understand the failure of a tuberculosis screening program.
• C) Assumes that individuals will usually act upon their intentions.
• D) Model of behavior from the work of Albert Bandura that has been used for organizational behavior, athletics, and mental and physical health.

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Definitions:

Phenotypes

The observable physical or biochemical characteristics of an organism, as determined by both genetic makeup and environmental influences.

Linkage Group

A set of genes located close together on the same chromosome that tend to be inherited together.

Chromosome

A chromosome is a long, continuous thread of DNA that contains numerous genes and regulatory elements, housed within the nucleus of every cell.

Testcross

Method of determining the genotype of an individual with a dominant phenotype: a cross between the individual and another individual known to be homozygous recessive.