Applied Health Psychology
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Applied Health Psychology explores how psychological theories, research, and interventions are used to understand and promote health, prevent illness, and improve healthcare outcomes. The course examines the psychological factors that influence health behaviors, the impact of stress and coping mechanisms on physical well-being, and strategies for behavior change. Students learn about the roles of health psychologists in clinical and community settings, assessing the effectiveness of health interventions, and addressing issues such as chronic illness management, patient adherence, and health disparities. Through case studies and applied projects, students gain practical skills for designing and evaluating health promotion programs and supporting patients in healthcare environments.
Recommended Textbook Health Psychology 8th Edition by
Shelley E. Taylor
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Chapter 1: What Is Health Psychology
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Q1) As of 2008,_______________ million Americans had no health insurance.
A) 15.3
B) 26.7
C) 46.3
D) 54.9
Answer: C
Q2) _______________ assess(es)the extent to which a group of individuals or a relationship between two variables changes over time.
A) Experiments
B) Prospective research
C) Retrospective research
D) Correlational research
Answer: B
Q3) A prospective approach where the same people are observed over a long period of time is
A) correlational research.
B) longitudinal research.
C) cross-sectional research.
D) quasi-experimental research.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Systems of the Body
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Q1) Stronger placebo effects have been observed in patients who are high in A) need for approval.
B) self-esteem.
C) internal orientation.
D) All of these are correct.
Answer: A
Q2) Hypnosis relies on A) physiological relaxation. B) distraction.
C) reinterpretation of sensations.
D) All of these.
Answer: D
Q3) Self-report measures such as the McGill Pain Questionnaire typically measure A) pain threshold.
B) the nature and intensity of pain.
C) pain tolerance.
D) pain and encouraged tolerance level.
Answer: B
Q4) Describe the design and implementation of pain management programs.
Answer: Answers will vary
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Chapter 3: Health Behaviors
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Q1) Younger people have more physical limitations than older people.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Divorce rates for families with a chronic illness are
A) due to the strain involved.
B) lower than families without a chronic illness.
C) higher than families without a chronic illness.
D) no different than families without a chronic illness.
Answer: D
Q3) Quality of life traditionally has been measured in terms of A) psychological and economic factors.
B) subjective criteria.
C) morbidity and mortality.
D) longevity.
Answer: C
Q4) Many chronic illnesses lead to a decrease in sexual activity.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Health-Promoting Behaviors
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Q1) One plausible scientific explanation for the success of some nontraditional treatments is the placebo effect.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Palliative care involves
A) final attempts to cure the terminally ill patient.
B) life-prolonging interventions such as placing the patient on a respirator.
C) ending the life of a patient who is suffering from a painful terminal illness.
D) custodial work designed to make the patient feel comfortable.
Q3) Kübler-Ross's theory has made an important contribution in identifying the universal stages of dying and breaking the taboo surrounding death.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the medical,social,and psychological factors associated with continuing treatment of a terminal illness.What options are now available to terminally ill patients and their families?
Q5) Describe Kübler-Ross's theory of dying.Evaluate the usefulness of her theory.
Q6) Describe the psychological and physiological correlates of grief.
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Chapter 5: Health-Compromising Behaviors
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Q1) ,the family environment that fosters _______________ may then contribute to hypertension.
A) negative affectivity
B) chronic anger
C) excessive competitiveness
D) cynical distrust
Q2) Explain the relationship of lifestyle factors to coronary heart disease and cardiac rehabilitation.
Q3) ______________ are the most common drug treatment for reducing the incidence of death,heart attack,and stroke.
A) Statins
B) Diuretics
C) Beta-blockers
D) Vitamins
Q4) The prevalence of hypertension among lower-income African Americans may be traced to
A) parental histories of hypertension.
B) racial differences in neuropeptide and cardiovascular response to stressors.
C) exposure to chronic environmental stressors.
D) All of these.
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Chapter 6: Stress
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Q1) _______________ may mute the adverse effects of stress on the immune system.
A) Relaxation training
B) Social contact
C) Repressing one's thoughts about the stressful event
D) Stress management skills
Q2) Sarah has rheumatoid arthritis.This is a(n)
A) disease of lifestyle.
B) disease that typically attacks men.
C) disorder that can be cured by diet.
D) autoimmune disorder.
Q3) Susan is a middle-class white woman with advanced breast cancer.Her family and friends provide her with emotional and instrumental social support.Sarah,an Hispanic woman from a working-class family,also has advanced breast caner.Her parents are deceased,her siblings do not contact her,and her husband and children are too frightened to be of much support,either emotional or instrumental.From the material in the text,whom do you expect to survive the longest time?
A) Susan.
B) Sarah.
C) There is no way to predict mortality in these cases.
Q4) How do psychosocial factors influence the initiation and course of cancer?
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Chapter 7: Coping,resilience,and Social Support
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Q1) Health care in the United States is becoming
A) increasingly egalitarian.
B) more accessible to the poor, but the number of middle-class households without health insurance is increasing.
C) increasingly oriented toward health promotion and primary prevention.
D) a two-tiered system.
Q2) The use of new technologies in medical care may be frightening for some people.According to your text,a health psychologist can assist these patients and their families by
A) testifying before government committees on the hazards of technology.
B) teaching control-enhancing techniques to help reduce fear.
C) advising the patient's physician on ethical issues.
D) A health psychologist has no useful role in this situation.
Q3) _____________ medicine is the conscientious,explicit,judicious use of the best scientific evidence for making decisions about the care of individual patients.
A) Treatment-effective
B) Cost containment
C) Cost effective
D) Evidence-based
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Chapter 8: Using Health Services
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Q1) The _______________ nervous system connects the central nervous system with all internal organs.
A) peripheral
B) automatic
C) autonomic
D) somatic
Q2) Describe the nature and symptoms of hepatitis.Compare and contrast Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B,including discussion of the cause and mode of transmission.
Q3) During ______________,blood is pumped out of the heart,and blood pressure
______________.
A) diastole; increases; systole; decreases
B) diastole; decreases; systole; increases
C) systole; increases; diastole; decreases
D) systole; decreases; diastole; increases
Q4) The genetic composition of a normal male child is
A) 46 chromosomes, two of which are sex chromosomes (XX).
B) 46 chromosomes, two of which are sex chromosomes (XY).
C) 23 chromosomes, two of which are sex chromosomes (XX).
D) 23 chromosomes, two of which are sex chromosomes (XY).
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Chapter 9: Patients, providers, and Treatments
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Q1) Fred wants to lose 20 pounds.He places 20 one-pound boxes of lard in the refrigerator.As his weight-loss program proceeds,he removes one box of lard each time he succeeds in losing a pound.In this instance,Fred is using
A) positive self-punishment.
B) negative self-punishment.
C) positive self-reward.
D) negative self-reward.
Q2) Charles is a college student who smokes cigarettes.Use the health belief model and the theory of planned behavior to explain why Charles continues to smoke even though he is aware of the Surgeon General's warning about the relationship between cigarettes and cancer and heart disease.
Q3) Broad-spectrum cognitive behavior therapy allows a therapist to select several complementary methods for the modification of a problem behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the advantages and disadvantages of health promotion efforts designed for at-risk populations.
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Chapter 10: The Management of Pain and Discomfort
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Q1) Self-efficacy with respect to exercise is related to positive effect derived from exercise in that
A) people with high self-efficacy beliefs report more positive mood.
B) positive effect predicts subsequent self-efficacy beliefs.
C) people with low self-efficacy beliefs are less likely to exercise.
D) All of these.
Q2) The risk of heart disease in obese women is _____ times that of normal weight women.For obese women who smoke the risk increases to ____ times.
A) two; three
B) three; five
C) four; seven
D) five; nine
Q3) Mothers of daughters who exhibit eating disorders are
A) often preoccupied with their own weight and eating behaviors.
B) more dissatisfied with their own appearance.
C) less dissatisfied with family functioning.
D) All of these.
Q4) Discuss sun safety practices.Why is this so important and how should you get the message to young people?
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Chapter 11: Management of Chronic Illness
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Q1) After smoking for 20 years,Lucille is quitting by using a nicotine patch.Her response to quitting is best explained by
A) the nicotine replacement theory.
B) the nicotine fixed-effect theory.
C) the multiple-regulation model.
D) Pomerleau and Pomerleau's theory.
Q2) Social engineering may be more effective than behavioral treatments in attacking the problem of alcoholism because
A) social engineering costs less than treating every person with alcoholism.
B) about 85 percent of persons with alcoholism do not receive treatment.
C) treatment programs are never effective.
D) there are not enough therapists to treat all persons with alcoholism.
Q3) Many health-compromising behaviors share several important characteristics.Describe these characteristics and the implications for intervention programs.
Q4) Describe the factors associated with smoking in adolescence.Evaluate the effectiveness of prevention programs targeting adolescents.
Q5) Identify and discuss the synergistic effect of smoking on other health-related risk factors.
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Chapter 12: Psychological Issues in Advancing and Terminal Illness
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Q1) The primary biological factor in the tend-and-befriend mechanism is A) HPA activation.
B) oxytocin.
C) cortisol.
D) GSA.
Q2) African-American men are more likely to die from a heart attack than are white men.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Chronic strain is strongly related to depression.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe Lazarus's model of the role of psychological appraisal in the experience of stress.Explain how this model addresses the cognitive and emotional responses to stress.
Q5) Hassles are minor life events that A) have a cumulative effect on health and illness. B) are not confounded with mental and physical illness. C) have an objective, but not subjective, component.
D) All of these.
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Chapter 13: Heart Disease, hypertension, stroke, and Type Ii
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Q1) Sarah is scheduled for a hysterectomy.In the hospital a health psychologist visits her.He finds Sarah worried about the pain involved in the surgery.The psychologist provides Sarah with some pamphlets on the procedure and answers her questions.He teaches her a relaxation technique that Sarah can use to control her anxiety before the surgery and her pain afterwards.Finally,he explains the drug-delivery method,making sure Sarah understands that she will control when and how much of the pain-relief drug she receives.He even shows her how it works.The health psychologist has performed a(n)_________________ intervention.
A) control-enhancing
B) relaxation-mediation
C) pain-reduction
D) anxiety-reducing
Q2) Which of the following is LEAST likely to experience distress following a divorce?
A) Thomas, age 43, a high-school graduate who works as a checker at Wal-Mart.
B) Dr. Shafer, age 40, a university professor with an extensive circle of friends.
C) Allen, age 59, a lawyer who had a heart attack five years ago.
D) Ryan, age 40, a lawyer who has lung cancer.
Q3) Explain how individual differences in personality are related to coping.
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Chapter 14: Psychoneuroimmunology and Immune-Related Disorderss
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Q1) Of the following,the Internet is used most for A) shopping.
B) locating health information.
C) getting sports scores.
D) buying stocks.
Q2) Brandon is very careful about what he eats focusing on fruits and vegetables and limiting fats.He uses a commercial anti-bacterial wash to clean these fruits and vegetables.He exercises at least 30 minutes every day.When he sees someone in the restroom leave without washing their hands he uses a paper towel to open the door so he is not exposed to germs.When he has a cold he goes to bed for the first two days.If the cold symptoms last longer than seven days,he makes an appointment with his primary care physician.Brandon is
A) a somaticizer.
B) a polysymptomatic somaticizer.
C) one of the worried well.
D) a hypochrondriac.
Q3) At the time of the writing of your textbook,what do we know about complementary and alternative medicine?
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Chapter 15: Health Psychology: Challenges for the Future
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Q1) The technical quality of medical care and the manner in which it is provided are
A) critical determinants of patient satisfaction.
B) important factors in the prevalence of malpractice litigation.
C) important factors in doctor shopping.
D) unrelated.
Q2) The status differences inherent between traditional providers and their patients may be reflected in the
A) active involvement of patients with their treatment regimens.
B) use of jargon or of baby talk.
C) manner in which patients interrupt medical providers.
D) provider's overestimation of the level of patients' technical understanding.
Q3) For children,adverse reactions to hospitalization are entirely due to separation anxiety.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Creative nonadherence
A) seriously undermines a patient's health.
B) is unrelated to disease prototypes.
C) may be an attempt to reassert control in the patient-provider relationship.
D) All of these.
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