The Authors of Your Text Provide a "Word of Caution

question 16

Multiple Choice

The authors of your text provide a "word of caution." It can be dangerous to overestimate the relation between perceived control and physical health,because

• A) scientists still do not understand the mechanisms that explain this relation.
• B) when health problems improve, people lose a sense of perceived control.
• C) currently all the evidence is correlational.
• D) when people's health does not improve with treatment, they may blame themselves.
• E) it is impossible to determine whether perceived control and health are causally related.

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