Which of the following statements concerning behavioral risk factors is TRUE?
a. Almost all of the causes of poor health are beyond one's control.
b. Luckily, unhealthy lifestyles usually center around one type of risk factor so that managing the behavior is relatively easy.
c. All people who exhibit behavioral risk factors have a general disease-prone personality type.
d. Some behaviors and lifestyles promote health, whereas others lead to illness and death.
D
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What is one of the most valuable factors about ecological theory?
a. It looks for unconscious motives of behavior. b. It emphasizes the impact of genetic determinants. c. It makes researchers aware of the multiple systems that impact children. d. It clearly delineates the overarching importance of reinforcement and punishment.
Which of these is a reasonable criticism of the research you read about in this chapter?
A. The concepts that researchers have studied have been too complex to reflect how most people categorize most of the time. B. Researchers have concentrated almost exclusively on the part of the brain that processes and stores concepts. C. Studying individuals who have reasoning deficits does not help us understand cognitive function in neurotypical people. D. The concepts that researchers have studied have been fairly simple and therefore not reflective of real-world conceptual categorization.
A mild degree of pain releases the neurotransmitter ____. A more intense pain also releases ____.
A. glutamate; substance P B. GABA; substance P C. glutamate; dopamine D. GABA; dopamine
When a person pursues sex reassignment surgery because they feel they were born with the wrong physical sex, it is called being __________.
A. homosexual B. transgender C. asexual D. bisexual