Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Psychology

Chapter

Meeting Life Challenges

Question:

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:-

Stress is a silent killer. Therefore developing a healthy lifestyle becomes very important.

The mass media, when combined with other health promotion programs, can be an effective tool promoting behaviour change.

Understanding features of party environments may help us devise practical and effective techniques to decrease the amount of alcohol we consume in social situations and reduce the incidence of drunk driving.

Regular and vigorous exercise promotes both physical an psychological health. Starting and maintaining an exercise habit requires that people arrange their environment in a way that supports the desired exercise behaviour and weakens competing behaviours.

Primary prevention involves educating people about the relation between their behaviours and their health, promoting healthy behaviours and directly modifying poor health practices. Secondary prevention strategies emphasize early detection to decrease the severity of illness that is already present.

The study of links between the mind, the brain and the immune system is called __________.

Options:

Immunology

Physiology

Psychoneuroimmunology

Biodiversity

Correct Answer:

Psychoneuroimmunology

Explanation:

Stress can cause illness by impairing the workings of the immune system. The immune system guards the body against attackers, both from within and outside. Psychoneuroimmunology focuses on the links between the mind, the brain and the immune system. It studies the effects of stress on the immune system.