Which of the following is one of the criteria for the diagnosis of pain disorder?
a) The pain must be described as piercing and unbearable.
b) Reported pain symptoms must occur in at least four parts of the body.
c) The pain and deficits related to it are not intentionally produced or feigned.
d) There must be a clear precipitating incident that led to the reported pain
symptoms.
c
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According to the hopelessness theory of depression, what are depressed persons likely to do?
a. make external causal attributions b. make unstable causal attributions c. believe that their fate is not determined at birth d. believe that aversive events will occur regardless of what they do
Bea was under a great deal of stress at work, and her health had started to suffer. Her doctor treated her using _____, where Bea had sensors attached to various parts of her body and watched her vital signs on a computer screen until she learned to relax.
A) biofeedback B) electrical massage stimulation C) stress-inoculation training D) relaxation therapy
Which of the following is key to generating a bell curve?
a. Flynn effect b. Norming c. Standard deviations d. Representative sample
?The field of health psychology developed
A) ?to increase life expectancy, which was much shorter then.
B) ?to address challenges in medical care, which was changing.
C) ?to try to find cures for infectious diseases that caused deaths.
D) ?to change medicine's focus from biological to psychosomatic.