Think about your life over the past year or so. Identify three psychological and/or social factors that may have had positive or negative effects on your health. Suggest how these effects may have occurred through health-related behaviors or physiological mechanisms where appropriate. Be as specific as possible.
What will be an ideal response?
Stress, personality traits such as optimism, and social support are three examples. These factors may depress or enhance immune system functioning, as well as encourage or discourage behaviors such as getting too little or enough sleep; healthy or unhealthy eating habits; and using or not using tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs.
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What term is used to describe the pattern of behavior that is apparent before a disorder develops?
a. premorbid history b. prognosis c. homeostasis d. developmental history
When does social support become a self-management strategy?
What will be an ideal response?
Describe Holmes and Rahe’s Social Readjustment Rating Scale, and what it has shown regarding stress
What will be an ideal response?
Studies have found that pedophiles have ____ that contribute to their sexual behavior
a. emotional disorders c. personality disorders b. brain abnormalities d. social inhibitions