The public health goal of reducing the average period of diminished vigor before death as life expectancy extends is called
A) compression of morbidity.
B) selective optimization.
C) anticipation of mortality.
D) quality of life expectancy.
A
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Functional fixedness is defined as:
A. the ability to transfer old learning to new situations B. a rule that can be used to solve new problems C. the inability to see an object as having a use different from its usual one. D. the inability to use heuristics or algorithms
Researchers asked individuals from different cultural backgrounds to write self-descriptions as part of a research study. These researchers found that:
a. Asians tended to list more shared qualities, while Americans tended to list more individualistic characteristics b. Asians tended to list more individualistic characteristics, while Americans tended to list more shared qualities c. Asians and Americans both tended to list more shared qualities than individualistic characteristics d. Asians and Americans both tended to list more individualistic characteristics than shared qualities
An ex-criminal, now on parole, returns to his life of crime because society treats him as a criminal. That is, as much as he wants to go straight, he is stigmatized by society as a criminal. This is an example of
A. a personality defect. B. primary deviance. C. secondary deviance. D. social-learning theory.
Which of these statements is true of normalcy and mental illness?
(a) mental illness is as real as pneumonia or cancer (b) if a problem is considered a mental illness, then it has no significant biological component (c) people with psychological problems can rarely be helped live normal lives (d) the definition of normalcy is based on facts, with value issues playing little or no role (e) all of the above