Applied Health Psychology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Applied Health Psychology explores the practical application of psychological theories and principles to health, illness, and healthcare. This course examines the ways psychological factors influence physical health, the management of chronic illnesses, health behavior change, and the promotion of healthy lifestyles. Students will learn about stress, coping mechanisms, patient adherence to medical advice, and the psychological aspects of pain and recovery. The course also covers strategies for health promotion, designing interventions, and working within multidisciplinary healthcare teams, providing students with the skills to address real-world health challenges using evidence-based psychological approaches.
Recommended Textbook Health Psychology 1st Canadian Edition by
Edward P. Sarafino
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Chapter 1: An Overview of Psychology and Health
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Q1) A "humor" is a
A) type of emotional response.
B)spiritual state.
C)a bodily fluid.
D)all of the above
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following statements about chronic disease is true?
A) Significant advances have been made in their treatment, to the point where they are no longer dangerous.
B) Although we know more about the causes of chronic diseases, advances in their treatment have been modest.
C) Psychological and social factors have little to do with these diseases.
D) Gains and survival rates from cancer between 1950 and 1987 are due to improved medical techniques.
Answer: B
Q3) Review the two primary perspectives of the mind-body problem.How is the debate relevant to a discussion of health and illness?
Answer: not answered
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Chapter 2: The Bodys Physical Systems
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Q1) This chapter describes a number of diseases or disorders that can occur in the six systems reviewed.What linkages exist between the discussion in this chapter and the discussion of common definitions of health and illness in Chapter 1?
Answer: not answered
Q2) The act of breathing (respiration) does which of the following?
A) Supplies the body with oxygen.
B) Supplies a necessary component for metabolism.
C) Helps us get rid of a specific waste product.
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q3) A condition in which one's immune response is directed at parts of the body it should protect is referred to as a(n)
A) immune disease.
B) rheumatic disease.
C) autoimmune disease.
D) none of the above
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Stress: Its Meaning, Impact and Sources
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Q1) The best way of summarizing the relationship of stress to health is
A) stress and health are consistently and strongly related
B) stress and health are unrelated C)stress and health are consistently and moderately related.
D) stress is the primary component in the development of illness.
Answer: C
Q2) Research on children exposed to chronic noise levels at home showed that they had A) difficulty knowing which sounds to tune out.
B) increased ability to discriminate between words.
C) difficulty knowing which sounds to attend to.
D) both a and c
Answer: D
Q3) In his new job, Harold has been given very unclear guidelines about his responsibilities.The stress he feels is probably related to A) low controllability.
B) secondary appraisal. C) situation ambiguity.
D) social readjustment.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Stress, Biopsychosocial Factors, and Illness
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Q1) The notion that social support is beneficial to health regardless of the level stress experienced is called the _____ hypothesis.
A) buffering
B) social network
C) direct effects
D) social support
Q2) Studies comparing individuals from crowded versus uncrowded neighbourhoods found
A) no real differences in hypertension levels.
B) no similarity to findings from animal studies on crowding.
C)residents from crowded neighbourhoods had higher heart rate and blood pressure increases during stressful tasks than did residents from uncrowded neighbourhoods.
D) residents from uncrowded neighbourhoods had higher heart rate and blood pressure increases during stressful tasks than did residents from crowded neighbourhoods.
Q3) Research has revealed that the concept of hardiness
A) has received consistent research support.
B) has received inconsistent support.
C) is assessed with tests that may actually measure negative affect.
D) both b and c
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Chapter 5: Coping With and Reducing Stress
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Q1) Which of the following are problems with instruments thus far developed to measure overall coping?
A) They expect coping to correlate well with mental or physical health.
B) They are generally retrospective measures.
C) They aren't accurate measures of coping.
D) all of the above
Q2) Research on the use of hypnosis in stress reduction has found that
A) it works better than many other methods in reducing stress.
B) treatment depends on how suggestible participants are to hypnosis.
C) hypnosis is not necessarily more effective than other relaxation techniques.
D) both b and c.
Q3) Involves tensing specific muscle groups.
A)progressive relaxation
B)denial
C)cognitive restructuring
D)time management
E)informational control
Q4) Compare and contrast problem-solving training with stress inoculation training.
Q5) You require surgery sometime in the near future.Using what you've learned in this chapter, how will you prepare for this stressful event?
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Chapter 6: Health-Related Beahviour and Health Promotion
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Q1) Cassie, a habitual smoker, lights up a cigarette after eating dinner.When the phone rings in the other room, she answers it and lights up another cigarette from the pack by the phone.She is surprised later that she didn't realize she had two cigarettes going at once.It appears her smoking behaviours are governed by the _____ of her behaviour.
A) consequences
B) social approval
C)antecedents
D) genetic influence
Q2) Carol believes it unlikely that she could contract a sexually transmitted disease from her new boyfriend because he's so nice to her.Carol's reliance on irrelevant information in making sexual health decisions is a form of
A)precontemplation.
B)reasoned action.
C)rational thinking.
D)motivated reasoning.
Q3) Suppose you want to develop a health promotion program at your school to reduce alcohol consumption.Using information from this chapter, what factors would you attempt to incorporate into your promotion program?
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Chapter 7: Reducing Substance and Abuse
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Q1) Which of the following statements about smoking prevalence is true?
A) Youth in their mid-teens who are aboriginal are more likely to smoke than youth of the same age in the general population.
B) On reserve First Nations and Inuit people are less likely to smoke than persons from the general population.
C)Smoking rates increase with education.
D)Smoking rates are highest in high income individuals because they can afford to buy cigarettes.
Q2) Your neighbour, a 35 year-old 2-3 pack-a-day smoker for the past 15 years, has finally decided he wants to quit smoking and has asked for your advice on how to go about doing so.What information could you give him regarding smoking cessation techniques and their likelihood for success?
Q3) Sometimes people label others as an "alcoholic" erroneously.Based on the definition from the text, what criteria would need to be met for this term to be accurate? How is it differentiated from problem drinking?
Q4) Distinguish between the various types and effects of the different categories of drugs.
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Chapter 8: Improving Nutrition, Weight Control and Diet, Exercise and Safety
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Q1) Amino acids are components of ____ that are responsible for _____.
A)minerals; nerve transmission
B)proteins; synthesis of new cell material
C)lipids; providing energy
D)vitamins; converting nutrients into energy
Q2) Anorexia nervosa is characterized by binge eating followed by purging.
A)True
B)False
Q3) We tend to judge the desirability of our weight based on the criteria of:
A)attractiveness and BMI.
B)actual weight and BMI.
C)attractiveness and healthfulness.
D)stamina and body shape.
Q4) Individuals who lose weight and regain it will find it easier to subsequently lose weight again.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Continuous exercise requiring high levels of oxygen is called aerobic exercise. A)True B)False
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Chapter 9: Using Health Services
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Q1) Provide care for individuals needing long-term medical and personal care
A)hospitals
B)nursing homes
C)home health care
D)Medicare
E)universal health care
Q2) The first health professional with whom many people consult is
A)a dentist.
B)a chiropractor.
C)a pharmacist.
D)a member of their lay referral network.
Q3) The most complex facilities in the health?care system are
A)hospitals
B)nursing homes
C)doctors' offices
D)emergency clinics
Q4) Compare and contrast the American and Canadian health care systems.
Q5) Newly hired by a health care clinic, what advice do you have for your boss regarding ways to increase adherence among the clinic's patients?
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Q6) Compare and contrast inpatient treatment modalities.
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Chapter 10: In the Hosital: the Setting, Procedures and Effects
on Patients
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Q1) Sayid's doctor ceased to speak to him at all while he was treating him for a skin laceration, instead directing all questions to Irving's wife.Sayid was the victim of A)his physician's feelings of perceived inadequacy of professional accomplishment. B)malpractice.
C)personalization.
D)depersonalization.
Q2) Discuss the process of depersonalization and explain how it is related to professional burnout.What are the consequences of depersonalization?
Q3) Despite modern techniques, it is estimated that roughly 5-10% of patients contract an infection while hospitalized.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The primary goal of most hospitals is
A)providing long-term care.
B)providing rehabilitation.
C)treating people quickly and discharging them in good health.
D)discharging people as quickly as possible regardless of health status.
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Chapter 11: The Nature and Symptoms of Pain
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Q1) Shooting or stabbing pain along the course of a nerve
A)referred
B)phantom limb
C)causalgia
D)neuralgia
E)analgesia
Q2) Chronic discomfort that is psychogenic in origin is referred to as A)pain disorder.
B)malingering.
C)chronic?organic syndrome.
D)acute pain.
Q3) One common way of measuring pain in children under the age of five is to observe the pain behaviours they exhibit
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to gate-control theory, the gating mechanism receives input from A)transmission cells, the periaqueductal gray, and the spinal cord
B)A-delta fibres, transmission cells, and c-fibres
C)large-diameter fibres, small-diameter fibres, and transmission cells
D)pain fibres, other peripheral fibres, and descending messages from the brain
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Chapter 12: Managing and Controlling Clinical Pain
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Q1) Compared to patients who don't attend multidisciplinary pain clinics, patients who do
A)still have great difficulty with depression.
B)are less likely to be working a year after discharge.
C)are more likely to play "pain games."
D)experience far less pain at follow-up.
Q2) Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation it based upon the view that counter irritation works on the principles of A)operant conditioning.
B)classical conditioning.
C)specificity theory.
D)gate control theory.
Q3) With chronic pain, one's personality may become dominated by the neurotic triad of hypochondriasis, depression and hysteria.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Aspirin and acetaminophen are examples of centrally-acting analgesics.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Serious and Disabling Chronic Health Illnesses:
Causes, Management, and Coping
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Q1) Which is not a characteristic of shock?
A)It is most pronounced when the crisis comes without warning.
B)Feelings of being stunned or bewildered.
C)Feeling a sense of detachment from the situation.
D)Feelings of loss, grief, despair.
Q2) Research on parent and physician goals in diabetic treatment suggest
A) both parents and physicians are focused on preventing long-term complications.
B)parents are concerned with preventing hypoglycemic episodes in their children.
C)physicians are primarily concerned with promoting the day-to-day well-being and activities of these children.
D)physicians and parents have different goals for treatment.
Q3) Compare and contrast the various forms of rheumatic diseases.
Q4) Regarding the use of biofeedback interventions with patients with epilepsy, research has found
A)it works well with most patients.
B)it does not work effectively in most cases.
C)it is difficult to determine with whom these interventions will be effective.
D)it is an inexpensive intervention and thus should be used more frequently.
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Chapter 14: Heart Disease, Stroke, Cancer, and Aids:
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Q1) A treatment for a limited breast cancer
A)balloon angioplasty
B)external beam therapy
C)chemotherapy
D)lumpectomy
E)HAART
Q2) The surgical removal and analysis of tissue to detect cancer is called
A)radiology.
B)anesthetic.
C)biopsy.
D)imaging.
Q3) Among Canadian men, AIDS mortality rates are
A)higher for Blacks and Aboriginals than Whites.
B)higher for Whites than Blacks or Aboriginals.
C)higher for Aboriginals than both Blacks and Whites
D)none of the above.
Q4) Aphasias are language disorders that can be caused by a stroke in the left hemisphere of the brain.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Whats Ahead for Health Psychology
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Q1) The steps in people's readiness to change health?related behaviours.
A)cost-benefit ratio
B)ecological momentary assessment
C)bioethics committees
D)stages of change model
E)quality-adjusted life years scale
Q2) What differences have or still need to be addressed to increase health psychologists' acceptance in medical settings?
Q3) The measurement known as quality-adjusted life years, or QALY's, allows health care planners and patients to
A)make decisions regarding the value of different treatments.
B)measure past quality of life.
C)calculate the number of years a patient is expected to live.
D)calculate the cost of treatment.
Q4) The textbook suggests a number of changes that need to occur in health psychology to increase our understanding of health and illness in different populations.Discuss 2 of his suggestions.
Q5) This chapter starts with a section devoted to illness prevention.Summarize the ways that health psychologists contribute to prevention efforts.
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