You have gone to your medical doctor because of a terrible backache, and he prescribes medicine but informs you of stretching exercises to perform and ways that you can relieve stress on your job. Your doctor believes that the medicine will work best and healing will be faster if he can help you make sense of your medical condition. Thus, your doctor follows the
a. hypochondriac perspective.
b. mind-body perspective.
c. medical model.
d. biopsychosocial model.
D
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Dr. Vance is lecturing to his medical students about the evidence that children with conduct disorders are more likely to have low levels of physiological arousal, are hyperactive to threats associated with anger and have blunted sensitivity to negative consequences. Dr. Vance's lecture is addressing which factors associated with etiology of CD?
a. environmental b. physiological c. familial d. cognitive
Dissociative fugue is best described as ____
a. a generalized amnesia for one's identity and life history that may be accompanied by bewildered wandering or purposeless travel b. lack of memory for a specific event or events c. a condition in which two or more independent personality states appear to exist in one person d. feelings of unreality concerning the self and the environment that are extremely distressing ti the individual
In studies that looked at the association between violent video games and aggressiveness, the researchers found that
a. the level of violence displayed in the video game was the determining factor in whether the participants showed aggression when given the chance. b. the competitiveness, difficulty, or pacing of a game may influence aggression levels just as much, if not more, than the violent content of the game. c. the violent video games actually sensitized the players so that they reacted negatively to the violence shown and were less likely to imitate it. d. only young children were influenced to imitate the violence with adolescents and adults not being significantly affected.
Marc was a POW in Vietnam. He was placed in a tiny cell, was beaten and threatened with death on a daily basis. This treatment is a part of the phase of brainwashing known as __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word