Which perspective has dominated Western thinking and sees health as the absence of illness with damage to the body

being inflicted by poor lifestyle choices, such as smoking or overeating, or by external causes, such as viruses?
a. the psychosomatic perspective
b. the mind-body perspective
c. the medical model
d. the biopsychosocial model

ANSWER: c

Psychology

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a) Lev Vygotsky b) Jean Piaget c) Erik Erikson d) Mary Ainsworth

Psychology

The area of the cortex most involved in memory, speech, language, and the controlling of

voluntary muscle response is the ______ lobe. a. frontal c. temporal b. parietal d. occipital

Psychology