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Unit 8 – Clinical Psychology
Topic 8.5
What is a primary reason that chronic stress may lead to physical illness according to the psychobiological perspective?
Stress causes people to make unhealthy lifestyle choices.
People under stress tend not to seek medical treatment when needed.
Stress can lead to physiological changes like increased heart rate and blood pressure.
Chronic stress leads directly to genetic mutations causing disease.
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AP Psychology - 8.5 Trauma- and Stressor Related, Dissociative, and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
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