An Individual Who Takes the Magicoreligious Perspective of Illness and Disease

question 5

Multiple Choice

An individual who takes the magicoreligious perspective of illness and disease is likely to believe that his or her illness was caused by:

• A) germs and viruses.
• B) supernatural forces.
• C) eating imbalanced foods.
• D) an imbalance within his or her spiritual nature.

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Definitions:

New Learning

The process of acquiring new knowledge or skills.

Forgetting Curve

A graph that describes the rate at which information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it.

Forgetting Rate

The speed at which information is lost from memory over time, an aspect of memory decay.

Intrusion Errors

Memory mistakes in which elements that were not part of the original information get mixed into (“intrude” into) someone’s recall.