WorksheetsChapter 1 Intro to Health Psychology
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 5mins
Health psychology is a field of study devoted to understanding physiological influences on why people get ill, how the respond to ill, and why people stay healthy.
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Health is define a complete state of physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
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False
The above definition of health is compatible with definition by
World Health Organization (1948)
World Congress Organization (1948)
World Bank Organization (1948)
The biomedical model emphasizes illness rather health than focusing on the behaviors that promotes health.
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The fundamental assumptions of the biopsychosocial model is that health and illness are consequences of dynamic interplay of biological, psychological and sociological
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What factors have fueled the growing field of health psychology?
Expanding the field of healthcare.
The biomedical model which has dominated field of medicine.
Increase in the chronic and lifestyle related diseases.
Health psychologists perform variety tasks, including the development of worksite interventions related to the improvement of employee's health habit.
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False
Acute disorders are
short term illness
results of bacterial invader.
cannot be cured
