Clinical Health Psychology Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Clinical Health Psychology explores the intersection between psychological principles and physical health, emphasizing the role of behavior, emotions, and cognition in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical conditions. The course covers topics such as stress and coping, lifestyle modification for chronic illness management, health behavior change, and the psychological aspects of pain, disability, and terminal illness. Students learn about evidence-based interventions and assessments commonly used in health care settings, as well as the collaboration between clinical psychologists, physicians, and other health professionals to improve patient health outcomes and quality of life.
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Health Psychology An Introduction to Behavior and Health 8th Edition by Linda Brannon
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Chapter 1: Introducing Health Psychology
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Q1) Health psychology is
A) a branch of medicine related to psychological health.
B) a discipline within psychology related to psychological health.
C) a new name for psychosomatic medicine.
D) a discipline within psychology related to health.
Answer: D
Q2) What two factors can help explain some of the ethnic differences in health and life expectancy?
A) Poverty and age
B) Poverty and low education level
C) Low education level and age
D) Low education level and drug use
Answer: B
Q3) Which of these has been a major health trend in the U.S.since 1900?
A) Cost of medical care has risen faster than inflation.
B) Health has been more frequently defined as the absence of illness.
C) Acute illnesses have replaced chronic diseases as the leading causes of death.
D) The biomedical model has been accepted by most psychologists.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Conducting Health Research
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Q1) The Alameda County study is an example of
A) an experimental longitudinal design.
B) a prospective design.
C) an experimental descriptive design.
D) a correlational cross-sectional design.
Answer: B
Q2) A research study found a direct,consistent association between late bedtime and childhood obesity.This is known as a _____________ relationship.
A) negative
B) dose-response
C) positive
D) causal
Answer: B
Q3) The determination of causation is most easily accepted on the basis of A) clinical trials.
B) studies using the risk factor approach.
C) community trials.
D) experimental studies.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Seeking and Receiving Health Care
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Q1) In the United States,people are considered to be ill
A) after they have been officially diagnosed by a health care provider.
B) if they have an elevated temperature for at least 24 hours.
C) when a disease process first begins.
D) whenever they feel sick.
Answer: A
Q2) A _______ is the event that separates illness behavior from sick role behavior.
A) heart attack
B) diagnosis
C) hospitalization
D) death
Answer: B
Q3) Medical errors cause some deaths in the United States.Research suggests that the number of such deaths per year is at least
A) 2,000.
B) 6,000.
C) 21,000.
D) 44,000.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Adhering to Healthy Behavior
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Q1) What are stage theories of health behavior change? How do they differ from continuum theories?
Q2) Using the transtheoretical model,explain the behavior of a 22-year-old woman who quit smoking three days ago.
Q3) One strategy to improve adherence is tailoring the regimen; an example is
A) a written contract that both patient and practitioner sign.
B) a series of educational lectures that detail the consequences of nonadherence.
C) using text messages to prompt people to take their medication.
D) offering financial assistance to help people pay for medications.
Q4) Evaluate the contribution of personal factors to adherence to medical advice.
Q5) The model or theory that includes four beliefs-perceived susceptibility,perceived severity,perceived benefits,and perceived barriers-to predict health-related behavior is the
A) self-efficacy theory.
B) health belief model.
C) health action process approach.
D) theory of planned behavior.
Q6) How frequent are adherence failures?
Q7) What assessment issues have an impact on understanding adherence rates?
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Chapter 5: Defining, Measuring, and Managing Stress
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Q1) People who own a _____ are 8 times more likely to be alive 1 year after their heart attack than those who do not own one.
A) bicycle
B) dog
C) pedometer
D) heart monitor
Q2) Stressful events that are so powerful that they affect large numbers of people fit into the category of
A) life events.
B) cataclysmic events.
C) daily hassles.
D) unintentional events.
Q3) The central nervous system consists of the
A) heart and the blood vessels.
B) brain and the spinal cord.
C) brain and the blood vessels.
D) somatic and the autonomic nervous systems.
Q4) Neurons are more like a chain than like a net.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Understanding Stress, Immunity, and Disease
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Q1) Explain the goals of the field of psychoneuroimmunology and evaluate its progress toward these goals.
Q2) The most solid research evidence suggests that
A) stress can trigger an asthma attack.
B) stress is the strongest risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
C) stress is the chief cause of depression.
D) stress is unrelated to both depression and anxiety.
Q3) Almost all ulcers are caused by stress.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The functioning of the immune system occurs only in the lymph nodes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The immune system has one way to fight invading foreign substances: specific immune system responses.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What functions do nonspecific and specific immunity serve,and why are both necessary?
Q7) Discuss the implications of immune deficiency.
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Chapter 7: Understanding and Managing Pain
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Q1) Myelinated afferent neurons are called
A) A fibers.
B) beta afferents.
C) C fibers.
D) delta afferents.
Q2) The most common type of pain is low back pain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) With regard to migraine headaches,
A) men are somewhat more likely than women to have migraines.
B) women are much more likely than men to have migraines.
C) women are slightly more likely than men to have migraines.
D) women and men are about equally susceptible to migraines.
Q4) What might be a reinforcer for pain behavior?
A) the sensory input
B) the motor output
C) the disapproval of family members
D) monetary compensation for injury
Q5) Evaluate the success and hazards of medical interventions for pain.
Q6) Differentiate among the three stages of pain.
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Chapter 8: Considering Alternative Approaches
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Q1) What are the advantages of integrative medicine? What are the barriers?
Q2) ______ has been suggested to help control some of the risks of Type 2 diabetes.
A) Yoga
B) Hypnosis
C) Qi gong
D) Tai Chi
Q3) There has been evidence that suggests that ________ produces changes in the function of the immune system.
A) qi gong
B) tai chi
C) Reiki
D) mindfulness meditation
Q4) The founder of chiropractic treatment believed that manipulation of spine would help prevent future illness,as well as cure current illness.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Analyze who uses alternative treatments.
Q6) What alternative procedures and products are most commonly used?
Q7) Discuss the effectiveness of alternative treatments.
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Chapter 9: Behavioral Factors in Cardiovascular Disease
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Q1) Other than advancing age,______ is the single most important risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
A) gender
B) hypertension
C) high cholesterol
D) ethnic background
Q2) The term cardiovascular disease includes stroke.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Extra weight carried around which body part is related to an increase risk for heart attack?
A) the hips
B) the abdomen
C) the chest
D) the thighs
Q4) You are MOST at risk for heart disease if you
A) are a woman.
B) are an unmarried man.
C) eat lots of fruits and vegetables.
D) never or seldom become angry.
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Chapter 10: Behavioral Factors in Cancer
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Q1) From about 1900 until the mid-1990s,cancer death rates in the United States
A) rose steadily.
B) exceeded death rates from cardiovascular disease.
C) dropped steadily.
D) remained quite constant.
Q2) _______ is the leading cause of death among children aged 1-14 years and ______ is the second leading cause of death for that age group.
A) Cancer; unintentional injury
B) Cancer; cardiovascular disease
C) Unintentional injury; cancer
D) Cardiovascular disease; cancer
Q3) The second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States is
A) lung cancer.
B) breast cancer
C) stomach cancer.
D) colorectal cancer.
Q4) What is the contrast between the risk and the perceived risk of smoking for the development of lung cancer?
Q5) Evaluate the role of eating and drinking in the development of cancer.
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Chapter 11: Living With Chronic Illness
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Q1) What health problem is NOT associated with diabetes?
A) cardiovascular disease
B) blindness
C) kidney disease
D) gum disease
Q2) Death from AIDS is due to
A) a direct effect of the deadliness of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
B) the destruction of the immune system, leaving people vulnerable to a variety of infections, any of which can be fatal.
C) poor medical care for those infected.
D) the tendency of those who are infected to avoid medical care until a critical stage of infection has been reached.
Q3) Advancing age is the leading risk factor for heart disease,cancer,and Alzheimer's.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The primary goal of asthma is minimizing the individual's asthma attacks.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the major challenges to people with asthma in managing their disease?
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Chapter 12: Smoking Tobacco
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Q1) People cough in response to smoke because
A) coughing expels irritants from the respiratory tract.
B) coughing is a substitute for sneezing.
C) coughing draws oxygen more deeply into the lungs.
D) of the action of the alveoli.
Q2) Anti-smoking media campaigns are effective but pro-smoking media campaigns are more effective.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In general,people smoke
A) in order to relax.
B) for a variety of reasons.
C) to satisfy oral needs.
D) to satisfy a need to use their hands.
Q4) Nicotine
A) is a depressant to those people who smoke, but a stimulant to those who do not.
B) is the main reason why people start to smoke.
C) is a more important factor in starting to smoke than is social pressure.
D) has addictive properties.
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Chapter 13: Using Alcohol and Other Drugs
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Q1) Contrast the attitudes and rates of drinking today with the attitudes and rates of drinking throughout history.
Q2) What was the effect of the passage of the 18th Amendment to the United States constitution on alcohol consumption?
A) Illegal alcohol consumption increased among the rich who could afford the cost.
B) Consumption increased initially but decreased steadily afterwards.
C) Consumption decreased dramatically from previous levels.
D) There was no effect.
Q3) Women and men are not equally affected by drinking alcohol,and one factor in this difference is body weight.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The drug MDMA ("Ecstasy")produces its effects by
A) prompting neurons to release stored dopamine in greater than normal amounts.
B) slowing the release of GABA.
C) prompting a massive release of serotonin.
D) inhibiting the release of dopamine.
Q5) What are the hazards of alcohol? What are the benefits?
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Chapter 14: Eating and Weight
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Q1) Girls from higher income families are more likely to be bulimics than girls from lower socioeconomic class families.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following are consequences of purging for bulimics EXCEPT:
A) damaged teeth, mouth, and esophagus
B) alkalosis
C) anemia
D) weight loss
Q3) ____________ levels signal low fat stores,prompting individuals to eat.
A) Low leptin
B) High leptin
C) Low insulin
D) High insulin
Q4) The setpoint model suggests that it should be quite easy to gain or lose weight.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Evaluate the role of hormones in weight regulation.
Q6) Darlene is 15 pounds heavier than the ideal.Should she diet to improve her health?
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Chapter 15: Exercising
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Q1) What distinguishes anaerobic exercise from aerobic exercise?
A) the amount of muscle contraction
B) the amount of oxygen consumption
C) the degree of joint rotation
D) the amount of body movement
Q2) Women who exercise
A) have about the same rate of all-cause mortality as do men who exercise.
B) have a lower risk of all-cause mortality than do men who exercise.
C) have a higher risk of all-cause mortality than do men who exercise.
D) have about the same risk of all-cause mortality as do men, but their rate of lung cancer is much higher than that of men who exercise.
Q3) Lynn would like to quit smoking,but she is concerned that she will gain weight.What advice would you give her?
A) Keep smoking, because some people who quit gain as many as 40 or 50 pounds.
B) Quit smoking, but begin a 1,000 calorie a day diet.
C) Quit smoking, eat regularly, and begin a regular physical activity program.
D) Quit smoking but begin a very low calorie diet and a physical activity program.
Q4) What are the psychological benefits of exercise?
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Chapter 16: Future Challenges
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Q1) Health psychologists can help the health care system by
A) improving people's understanding of genetic risk information
B) understand people's emotional responses to genetic testing
C) encourage people to maintain a healthy lifestyle
D) all of the above
Q2) In the United States,wealthy people have more well-years than poor people,but they do not live longer than poor people.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following are the most documented health disparities in the United States?
A) racial and ethnic disparities
B) gender and sexual orientation disparities
C) education and income disparities
D) geographic location
Q4) Which group of U.S.citizens has the longest life expectancy?
A) European Americans
B) Asian Americans
C) African Americans
D) Hispanic Americans
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