Objective
To locate the main idea and supporting details in a textbook excerpt.

Step 1: Read "The Mind-Body Connection," from the textbook Health: The Basics.

Step 2: Complete the following outline, based on the passage you have just read and using the questions that follow it, by selecting answers for each numbered space. Then answer the true-or-false questions. Your instructor will tell you whether to write your answers in your book or to submit your answers online for electronic grading. If you are completing the activity in your book, you may want to refer to the passage on your computer screen.

Main idea: Researchers are exploring the connection between our physical health and our emotions.

		1. Which idea belongs under the first heading, "Hormones activate a stress response," as A?
		2. Which idea belongs under the first heading, "Hormones activate a stress response," as B?
		3. Which idea should be placed as the second major heading in the outline above, as II?
		4. Which idea should be inserted to complete A under the second major heading of the outline (II)?
		5. Which idea should be inserted to complete A under the third major heading of the outline (III)?
		6. Which idea belongs as A under the fourth major heading of the outline (IV)?
		7. Which idea belongs as B under the fourth major heading of the outline (IV)?
		8. Students who use humor as a coping mechanism report being more likely to be in a positive mood than students who do not use humor.
		9. In a study of depressed and suicidal senior citizens, patients who recovered were the ones who demonstrated a sense of humor.
		10. Based on this reading, you could infer that being able to laugh at yourself could help you recover more quickly from an illness.
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