Practice question · Put in order
Order the lifespan chain showing why health psychologists emphasize early prevention.
- Chronic disease emerges in adulthood as the cumulative result.
- Health in older age reflects a lifetime of accumulated exposure.
- Decades of accumulated behavior and exposure build up through adulthood.
- Adolescence adds new exposures as risk-taking spikes.
- Health habits and beliefs are established in childhood through family modeling.
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- Follow the lifespan in order and note that each stage's exposures carry forward.
- The cumulative logic is why intervening early beats waiting for disease to appear.
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- Health habits and beliefs are established in childhood through family modeling.
- Adolescence adds new exposures as risk-taking spikes.
- Decades of accumulated behavior and exposure build up through adulthood.
- Chronic disease emerges in adulthood as the cumulative result.
- Health in older age reflects a lifetime of accumulated exposure.
Why
Habits form in childhood, adolescence adds exposures, decades of accumulation follow, chronic disease emerges in adulthood, and older-age health reflects the whole accumulated history. Because health behavior is cumulative, prevention pays most when it starts early.
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