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What is the focus of health psychology?
What is the focus of health psychology?
- Studying mental illness exclusively
- Investigating social media's impact on health
- Exploring the history of psychology
- Studying physical illness and health behaviors (correct)
According to the biomedical model, where do diseases originate from?
According to the biomedical model, where do diseases originate from?
- Exclusively from internal physical changes
- Mainly from psychological factors
- Primarily from social interactions
- Either from outside the body or as internal physical changes (correct)
What are the key theoretical frameworks used in health psychology?
What are the key theoretical frameworks used in health psychology?
- Biopsychosocial model, health and illness as a continuum, direct and indirect pathways between health and illness, and focus on variability (correct)
- Structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, and gestalt psychology
- Cognitive dissonance theory, operant conditioning, classical conditioning, and social learning theory
- Psychoanalytic theory, humanistic theory, behaviorism, and cognitive theory
What does the biomedical model attribute as causes of illness?
What does the biomedical model attribute as causes of illness?
What does health psychology study?
What does health psychology study?
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