Chapter 1 - What is health psychology
T/F? Correlational studies often have disadvantages over experiments because they are less adaptable
️False
A prospective approach where the same people are observed at multiple points in time is known as?
️longitudinal research
A health psycholog...
Chapter 1 - What is health psychology
T/F? Correlational studies often have disadvantages over experiments because they are less adaptable
✔️False
A prospective approach where the same people are observed at multiple points in time is known as?
✔️longitudinal research
A health psychologist who designs a media campaign to get people to improve their diets focuses on?
✔️health promotion and maintenance
The belief that profiles of particular disorders are caused by emotional conflicts is the basis of the?
✔️field of psychosomatic medicine
What combines results from different studies to identify how strong the evidence is for a particular
research finding? ✔️Meta-analysis
Sigmund Freud described what as a specific unconscious conflict that produces physical disturbances
and symbolizes repressed psychological conflicts? ✔️conversion hysteria
How was the rise of mind-body dualism an advantage over prevailing beliefs in the Middle Ages? ✔️the
physical body could now be examined scientifically
The number of new cases of a disease that exist at some given point in time is called? ✔️Incidence
T/F? Experiments have ceased to remain the mainstay of science, because they typically provide less
definitive answers to problems than other research methods? ✔️False
T/F? Franz Alexander developed a profile of the ulcer-prone personality as someone with excessive
needs for dependency and love ✔️True
Much research in health psychology is? ✔️experimental
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