Which of the following statements best encapsulates the relationship between stress and physical illness according to psycho-neuroimmunologists?
a. Stress compromises the body's immune system, leaving a person vulnerable to illness.
b. Stress increases the production of natural killer cells, which causes cell death and leads to illness.
c. Stress causes high blood pressure, heart disease, and cancer.
d. Stress has no direct relationship to physical illness, though physicians tell us that these things are related so that we will be more willing to take unnecessary medications.
e. Stress is the single biggest cause of cancer, and research has repeatedly confirmed this.
a. Stress compromises the body's immune system, leaving a person vulnerable to illness.
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A. ecological validity B. internal validity C. control D. manipulation
The normal development of a male locked in an Oedipal rivalry would be expected to occur when
a. he finds a substitute source of sexual gratification. b. his superego overpowers the sexual impulses of his id. c. he comes to identify with his father and accepts his values. d. he becomes fixated at the phallic stage of development.
Culturallydisapproved of behaviors in the past were often given psychological labels. The socalled "mental disorder" for a woman that had a healthy sexual appetite was known as
a. anarchia. b. nymphomania. c. self-defeating personality. d. drapetomania.
Which of the following diagnoses is more likely to be made for a female?
A) Binge-eating disorder B) Schizophrenia C) Atypical binge disorder D) Anorexia nervosa