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strangeaffliction

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Friedman & Booth-Kewley's meta-analysis on personality and various diseases found that
 
  A) there is no evidence for a disease prone personality.
  B) depression is related to arthritis, but not to other diseases.
  C) anxiety is related to asthma and ulcers, but not heart disease.
  D) depression is related to cancer, but not to other illnesses.
  E) there seems to be a generic disease prone personality.

Question 2

What two assumptions underlie the cognitive perspective on personality?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

E

Answer to Question 2

(1) It is critical to understand how people manage the sensory information that surrounds them. In order to understand the bits of information people receive, they must integrate and organize these bits in some way.
(2) Life involves a chain of decisions, both conscious and (more commonly) nonconscious. These decisions, and the irregularities in implicit decisions, have important implications for personality.



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