Introduction to Health Psychology
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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?

  • 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?

  • 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?

    <p>External invasion or internal physical changes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does health psychology study?

    <p>The role of psychology in any physical health problem including coughs and colds, cancer, coronary heart disease, HIV, obesity, and diabetes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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