Exam 1: Introducing Health Psychology

People's beliefs about health and illness may be incorrect.Which of these common beliefs is true?

Janelle,a health psychologist,could do any of the following tasks EXCEPT

The training of health psychologists includes earning doctoral degrees.

The biomedical model of disease

In the United States,young people ages 15 to 24 are most likely to die from _______ and _______.

Trace the changes in patterns of disease during the 20th century.Are there signs that those trends are changing? If so,how?

Before 1950,psychologists were involved with physical health primarily in the area of

Psychosomatic medicine sees physical illnesses as

Trace the development of behavioral medicine and health psychology.

Many medical advances during the 19th century were prompted by the biomedical model that

Cade attributes catching a "cold" to not getting enough sleep and feelings of distress.Thus,Cade has an implicit acceptance of the ____ model of health.

Health psychologists are most likely to see health

College graduates generally have a higher death rate than high school dropouts.

The discipline that emphasizes the prevention of illness and the enhancement of health in currently healthy people is called

In the United States during the early years of the 21st century,

Health psychology is

Despite national media coverage to the contrary,poverty is not related to the mortality rate in the United States.

An inverse relationship exists between educational level and death rates,which means that

During the last quarter of the 20th century,psychology became involved in the changing field of health primarily by

The increase in life expectancy since 1900 is due mostly to