What is illness behavior?
What will be an ideal response?
Those who adopt the sick role exhibit patterns of behavior referred to as illness behavior in which they evaluate symptoms, seek medical care, and ask for support from close others. Illness behavior is reinforced in this manner by those who find the additional attention, care, and relaxation of the demands of their normal duties rewarding.
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According to psychoanalytic theory, the conflicts between the id and the superego often lead to feelings of
A. anxiety. B. desire. C. depression. D. anger.
A stimulus that signals whether a certain response or behavior is likely to be rewarded, ignored, or punished is called a __________
a) reinforcer. b) generalized stimulus. c) discriminative stimulus. d) primary reinforcer.
Throughout history, most births were administered by ______________
a. physicians b. midwives c. nurses d. shamans
Which of the following is an example of divided attention?
a. talking on phone while playing a computer game b. typing a term paper on a computer c. driving a car in the morning d. swimming laps in an Olympic-sized swimming pool