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All right.
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So this question is asking, which of the following statements pertaining to asthma is false? a, parental and interpersonal conflicts have been tied to the development of asthma.
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B, asthma suffers can experience asthma -like symptoms simply by believing that an inert substance they breathe will lead to airway obstruction.
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C, asthma has been shown to be linked to hostility or d, rates of asthma has decreased considerably since 2000.
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So on the screen before you, i kind of condense each answer option just so the screen isn't too clogged, and i'm not copying the answers verbatim to fill the entire screen.
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So hopefully you're able to understand it relative to the answer options i just read out aloud.
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So what this question is really getting at is your understanding of asthma, but not only as the respiratory physical disease that we know, but how psychological effects can kind of transcend into somatic attributions.
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And you kind of consider that as having some sort of psychosomatic cause, meaning that it's both psychological but also physical.
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And i think that's what you have to really remember when considering why we're talking about asthma.
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Because you have to remember this is a psychology textbook.
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You kind of have to think twice as to why asthma is being mentioned, and it only makes sense that there must be some sort of psychological, although not explanation, but rather relevant to the disease.
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I think for starters, if there's one thing you have to understand between linking psychology and asthma is that it has been shown to be linked to high periods of emotionality.
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I think this is directly related to letter option c, where asthma is linked to hostility.
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Although it's not explicit in that they're stating that it's hostility, high emotionality can kind of suggest that sort of nature, whether it be positive emotions or negative emotions, and most often times it would be negative emotions...