You have gone to your medical doctor because of a terrible backache, and he prescribes medicine but informs you of stretching exercises to perform and ways that you can relieve stress on your job. Your doctor believes that the medicine will work best and healing will be faster if he can help you make sense of your medical condition. Thus, your doctor follows the
a. hypochondriac perspective.
b. mind-body perspective.
c. medical model.
d. biopsychosocial model.
d
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a. placebo effect b. gun-tool c. conformity d. obedience
During the resistance phase of the general adaptation syndrome people:
a. first become consciously aware of the presence of the stressor b. continue to repress the presence of the stressor c. can function reasonably well but are particularly susceptible to other stressors d. are having difficulty coping with the original stressor
A Type D person experiences chronic distress through negative emotions and social inhibition
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
When a psychoanalysis patient is reluctant to discuss, remember, or think about events that are threatening, Freudians label this as
a. transference. b. catharsis. c. resistance. d. none of the above