Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Over 90% of patients with chronic illnesses fail to comply with recommended
2. Writing about feelings can help people cope with cancer.
3. For most of history, the biomedical model has been the MOST widely accepted
4. Life expectancy has more than doubled since the early 1900s.
5. Technological and scientific developments in neuroscience have had relatively little influence on contemporary health psychology
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False
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The percentage of people over the age of 65 is projected to decline by the year 2050.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following Intervention for Substance-Related Disorders has been shown to be most effective in treating adolescents with substance abuse disorders?
a. shock therapy b. psychotherapy c. incarceration d. cognitive-behavioral therapy
Norman, a 71-year-old white widower, is very depressed. He still lives in the small town that he grew up in and attends church every Sunday. He also attends many other regular social activities during the week. What statement regarding Norman's susceptibility to suicide is most accurate?
a. Norman is at minimal risk to commit suicide because he has so many ties to his community. b. The fact that Norman is an elderly, white, depressed male puts him in a high-risk group, but his social support system is a positive sign. c. Norman displays many of the risk factors associated with suicide and is likely to attempt but not successfully complete suicide. d. Norman's severe, untreated depression is concerning enough that he requires immediate hospitalization.
Freud introduced the idea of "penis envy" to explain the personality development of young girls. By introducing the concept of "womb envy," Karen Horney was suggesting that
A. men are as dissatisfied with themselves as women. B. men are conflicted as children over wanting a womb like mother has. C. women are ultimately superior to men because they can bear children. D. each gender has attributes that the other admires.