Chapter 13: Culture and Cardiovascular Disease

Question 1

affect cultures

Answer 1

cultures such as Italy that place a premium on the display of emotions

Question 2

cardiovascular disease

Answer 2

general category of diseases resulting from problems with the heart and circulatory system. Includes coronary heart disease (CHD) (also known as coronary artery disease) and heart failure (both commonly referred to as heart attacks), strokes, hypertension or high blood pressure

Question 3

fluid time

Answer 3

cultural orientation towards time where individuals are flexible with regard to time and do not expect to be someplace or start engagements or events exact at the time specified

Question 4

fixed time

Answer 4

cultural orientation towards time where individuals are exact with regard to time and expect to be somewhere or start events exactly at the time specified

Question 5

control cultures

Answer 5

cultures where people believe that they have absolute control over their outcomes (similar to having an internal locus of control)

Question 6

neutral cultures

Answer 6

cultures such as that of Japan that do not sanction the open display of emotions

Question 7

constraint cultures

Answer 7

cultures where people believe everything is in the hands of God or is fate