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Based on what you have learned about the health belief model, explain the five factors that can affect a patient's attitude toward disease and give some suggestions on how the medical assistant can therapeutically perform patient education under these circumstances.
Perceptual Distortion
An error in how we interpret or understand sensory information, causing us to misjudge part of our environment or social interactions.
Primacy Effect
A cognitive bias that results in a person recalling information presented at the beginning of a list better than information in the middle or end.
Selective Attention
The cognitive process of focusing on a particular object, event, or process while ignoring others, in a limited capacity of awareness.
Contrast Effect
A cognitive bias where the difference between two things is exaggerated because they are compared directly to each other.
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