To Study How Stress and Healthy and Unhealthy Behaviors Influence

question 44

Multiple Choice

To study how stress and healthy and unhealthy behaviors influence health and illness, psychologists and physicians created the interdisciplinary field of

• A) psychosomatic medicine.
• B) behavioral medicine.
• C) holistic medicine.
• D) complementary and alternative medicine.

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Definitions:

Psychosexual Stages

Five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tied to the sexual development of the child.

Erogenous Zones

Erogenous zones are areas of the body that elicit sexual arousal when touched or stimulated.

Sigmund Freud

An Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Superego

A part of the human psyche in psychoanalytic theory that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment.