What Is the Basis for the Health-Illness Continuum

question 15

Multiple Choice

What is the basis for the health-illness continuum?

• A) Prevention of acute illness
• B) Individual response to health or illness
• C) Promotion of health and wellness
• D) Variation in degree of health or illness

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Definitions:

Conditioned Taste Aversion

Development of a nausea or aversive response to a particular taste because that taste was followed by a nausea reaction, occurring after only one association.

Learned Helplessness

A condition in which an individual feels unable to change their situation after repeatedly facing uncontrollable events, leading to passive and resigned behavior.

Spontaneous Recovery

A conditioned response's revival, once thought to be extinguished, after a time without exposure to the associated stimulus.

Operant Conditioning

An instructional method in which the magnitude of an action is either encouraged or suppressed through positive or negative feedback.