1. What do you think causes health problems? Why are individuals obese? Have heart disease? Abuse drugs and/or alcohol?

** Please answer these questions before reading the next set of questions **

2. Review your answers to question 1 and note which ones have either a:

a) An internal, or dispositional, cause of the problem

b) An external, or sociocultural cause

What is your meta-analysis of your responses? In other words, what did you think about what you wrote?

3. When you were growing up, what kinds of healthy behaviors were around you? What kinds of unhealthy behaviors were around you? Did they have an influence on your own current worldview on health? Do you trust the health care system? Why or why not?