Exam 4: Psychological Factors and Health

African Americans experience different treatment than European Americans by medical practitioners.

Anxiety tends to motivate ______.

An emotional state that usually involves cognitions to the effect that the world should not thwart our efforts to meet our needs or that another person has no right to treat us in a certain way, is ______.

Some of us are our own worst enemies.

African American women are more likely than European American women to develop breast cancer.

Your diet can influence the likelihood that you will contract cancer.

The thalamus is essential to the alarm reaction stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

Which of the following is LEAST likely to develop lung cancer?

Hypertension is more common among African Americans than among European Americans.

The belief that health and illness are a function of biological, psychological, and cultural domains and their interactions is known as ______.

Discuss the causes and effects of menstrual discomfort, and ways to cope with it.

A person who finds herself impatient and fidgeting while stuck in traffic or waiting in line is activating the ______.

Each year about ______ Americans die from cancer.

The endocrine system consists of ______.

Of the following, the behavior linked to the most preventable deaths each year in the United States is ______.

Psychological interventions have no impact on the course of, or survival rates for, cancer.

Taylor found that in the face of stress, about ______of people are more likely to tend to the children or "interface" with family and friends rather than to flee.

Each of the following is recommended by your text as a way of coping with the Type A behavior pattern EXCEPT ______.

The immune system can be weakened by ______ steroids.

A microscopic organism that can cause disease is known as ______.