What are the goals of health psychology and behavioural medicine?

a) Altering all lifestyle habits
b) Altering distressed psychological states in order to improve health
c) Altering physiological processes in order to improve health
d) Altering perceptions about mental health


b

Psychology

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David Rosenhan's famous studyin 1973 found that

A) it was difficult to be admitted to a mental hospital B) psychiatrists could identifypeople who were faking a mental illness C) hospital staff were unable to identifynormal individuals in the hospital D) deinstitutionalization was not a problem in states that had asylums

Psychology

Bipolar disorder includes

a. phobia with at least one personality disorder b. mania and depression in the same individual c. two different personality disorders at the same time d. schizophrenia and one other form of psychosis

Psychology

The three primary elements of intimacy, passion, and commitment are often thought of as the ___________, physical, and cognitive aspects of love

a. empty b. emotional c. romantic d. passionate

Psychology

The availability and representativeness heuristics sometimes can operate in tandem. The joint effect of these two heuristics can create a(n)

a. unmemorable association. b. co-occurrence fallacy. c. statistical association. d. illusory correlation.

Psychology