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Based on What You Have Learned About the Health Belief

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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.


Definitions:

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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