Which of the following statements about health psychology is true?
A. It is focused on effective emotional therapies for mood disorders.
B. It became an important part of psychology in the early 1900s.
C. It is especially important given the lingering, incurable nature of the current leading causes of death.
D. It is primarily focused on helping people understand development during the lifespan.
Answer: C
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a. demand exorbitantly high amounts to participate in research studies. b. easily conform to how a researcher wants them to respond. c. are mostly American college students. d. are mostly children and adolescents in treatment.
Which parenting style is more common as income falls?
authoritative authoritarian neglectful permissive
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a. if individual performances were inconsistent across tests b. if individual performances were consistent across tests c. if when people's scores were averaged across tests, everyone received about the same average score d. if individuals showed different patterns of high and low scores on the tests
Which of the following factors is positively related to being popular in childhood?
a. having been the victim of child abuse b. being aggressive c. being "different" from peers in some significant way d. being given lots of opportunities to play with other children