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_____________ psychologists study both positive and negative impacts that humans' behavior and decisions have on their health, survival, and well-being.

Select one:

a. Physiological

b. Developmental

c. Health

d. Medicinal

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Dr. Benno leaves his practice in a wealthy suburb and begins seeing patients in a clinic in a poor urban area. What can he expect will be the difference between his new patients and his former ones?

Select one:

a. The new patients will be generally in worse health.

b. The new patients will have less stress because many are unemployed.

c. The new patients will have more stress but lower mortality rates.

d. The new patients will be less likely to suffer from diseases associated with high-pressure lives, like heart disease.

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For the past six months, Dahlia's job has been extremely stressful, but she doesn't feel that she can quit because she needs the money for tuition. Dahlia has been having chronic headaches and is behind in all of her classes. According to Hans Selye, Dahlia is in the ______ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

Select one:

a. alarm

b. collapse

c. exhaustion

d. resistance

Answer 1

• Health psychologists study both positive and negative impacts that humans' behavior and decisions have on their health, survival, and well-being.
• Dr. Benno leaves his practice in a wealthy suburb and begins seeing patients in a clinic in a poor urban area. What can he expect will be the difference between his new patients and his former ones?
  The new patients will be generally in worse health.
• For the past six months, Dahlia's job has been extremely stressful, but she doesn't feel that she can quit because she needs the money for tuition. Dahlia has been having chronic headaches and is behind in all of her classes. According to Hans Selye, Dahlia is in the exhaustion stage of the general adaptation syndrome.