Cultural Psychology
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Cultural Psychology explores the dynamic relationship between culture and psychological processes, examining how cultural contexts shape individuals' thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The course delves into theories, methodologies, and empirical findings that highlight both universal and culture-specific aspects of human experience. Students will analyze cross-cultural differences in perception, cognition, self-concept, social interactions, and mental health, gaining a nuanced understanding of how culture informs identity and influences psychological functioning. Through case studies and research, the course encourages critical reflection on cultural assumptions and promotes culturally responsive approaches within psychology.
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Health Psychology A Cultural Approach 2nd Edition by Regan A.R. Gurung
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Chapter 1: Health Psychology: Setting the Stage
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Q1) Studies where one group gets an experimental drug and another gets a placebo are called:
A)randomized clinical trials
B)correlational studies
C)quasi-experimental studies
D)longitudinal studies
Answer: A
Q2) Inactive substances similar to the experimental drugs given to test the power of expectations are called:
A)controls
B)distracters
C)placebos
D)dependent variables
Answer: C
Q3) What region of the United States has a higher incidence of smoking?
A)Upper New York
B)Midwest
C)Southern California and Arizona
D)Kentucky and Virginia
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Cultural Approaches to Health
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Q1) If you are receiving services from a provider that does not make appointments,does not have forms or fees,you pay whatever you believe the healer deserves,and meets you in the provider's home,you are seeing a:
A)physician in a free clinic
B)curandero
C)aromatherapist
D)none of the above
Answer: B
Q2) The belief that "like cures like," when small substances of medicinal substances are given to cure symptoms,belongs to:
A)naturopathic medicine
B)homeopathic medicine
C)dietary supplements
D)aromatherapy
Answer: B
Q3) Yin and yang focus on spiritual balance and living in harmony with nature.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Essential Physiology
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Q1) Menopause historically meant that a woman would be participating in hormone replacement therapy.In 2003,the Women's Health Initiative study indicated that this treatment should be halted due to the fact that women receiving the drug were found to have a higher risk for certain cancers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) What are some facts that are known about the respiratory system?
A)Lung capacity is an important measure of cardiovascular fitness.
B)Asthma is a curable respiratory condition.
C)The main gas system transfer of oxygen and carbon dioxide occurs in the trachea.
D)All of the above are true
Answer: A
Q3) What is one hypothesis for the change in the onset of menstruation?
Answer: Answers can include: stress higher levels of environmental factors Brumbauer (1997),found that after years of immigration,regardless of ethnicity,girls menstruate earlier in North America than in their countries of origin.
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Chapter 4: Stress Across Cultures
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Q1) A balloon breaking at a birthday party has the following definitions:
A)The noise from the balloon breaking is the stressor,and the heart rate increasing could be one stress response.
B)If the noise does not make your heart rate go up,it is not a stressor but just another event.
C)Stressors can vary among individuals,not everyone will have the same stress response to the balloon breaking
D)All of the above are true.
Q2) Chronic stress is best defined by:
A)running from a bee or wasp to avoid being stung
B)the allostatic load can cause heart and memory problems
C)dealing with the phone ringing off the wall from election campaigns and business solicitors
D)dealing with a sprained wrist
Q3) Canon (1929)viewed stress as the biological mobilization of the body for action,involving sympathetic activation and endocrine activity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Coping and Social Support
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Q1) Coping styles are just reflections of personality,but do not mediate the relationship between personality and well-being.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Each of the following is considered one of the "Big Five"factors in personality except:
A)extraversion
B)neuroticism
C)agreeableness
D)optimism
Q3) Mai is utilizing a coping technique that asks her to focus on a specific thought,word image,or phrase.Which of the following coping technique might she be using?
A)biofeedback
B)meditation
C)guided imagery
D)all of the above
Q4) Compare and contrast received support and perceived support.Give some examples of how these two types of support can affect the health outcome of an individual.
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Chapter 6: Models of Behavior Change
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Q1) What three unhealthy behaviors account for 71% of 1 million preventable deaths per year?
A)not wearing seat belts,burning candles in the home,unhealthy diet
B)smoking,unhealthy diet,and lack of physical activity
C)climbing ladders to the top rung,smoking and unhealthy diet
D)driving vehicles too fast,unsafe use of firearms,unhealthy diet
Q2) What factors can predict relapse?
A)the new behavior is not being maintained.
B)the person is demoralized from not being able to change,and the behavior can actually be worse then before the intervention.
C)participants do not have the cognitive and behavioral skills to maintain the behavior change.
D)All of the above.
Q3) Social norming research has shown that college students often believe that those engaging in healthy behavior are:
A)the majority.
B)are going to change their behavior after they graduate from college.
C)in the minority when,in fact,they are not.
D)actually not being honest if they are engaging in healthy behavior or not.
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Chapter 7: Health Behaviors: Eating, Physical Activity,
Smoking and Drinking
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Q1) What are some of the cultural beliefs held by diverse cultures concerning the types of food that should be consumed during pregnancy?
Q2) Nearly half of college students are binge drinkers-men who have consumed seven or more,and women who have consumed 6 or more drinks in a row at least once during the previous 2 weeks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Smoking trends show that most age groups,except for the following,are reducing the amount of smoking:
A)14-18
B)18-24
C)25-42
D)43-55
Q4) Having more varieties of food present often leads to the consumption of more food.This phenomenon is referred to as:
A)protein leptin theory
B)sensory specific satiety
C)hypersatiation
D)"supersizing"
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Chapter 8: Factors Surrounding Illness
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Q1) Which two personality traits tend to report more symptoms of illness than others?
A)optimism,extroversion
B)resilient,outgoing
C)anxious,neurotic
D)high self-regard,low self-esteem
Q2) Evidence suggests that the underutilization of medical resources by Asian Americans is due to:
A)under-referral by their health practitioners
B)a basic misunderstanding of Western health care
C)the lack of translators in Asian languages
D)the misunderstanding of providers about the needs of Asian patients
Q3) When doctors play a pivotal role in making decisions in the hospital because the patient is unable to do so,it is referred to as the _____ model of interaction.
A)autonomous
B)active-passive
C)guidance-cooperation
D)prescriptive
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Chapter 9: Pain
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Q1) Sensory fibers that transmit signals from the receptors to the spinal cord are called:
A)efferent fibers
B)afferent fibers
C)analgesic fibers
D)P fibers
Q2) Cultural variations in pain are due to differences in socialization and expectations across different cultural groups.Two cultural factors that really stand out are:
A)sexual orientation and age
B)sex and ethnicity
C)regional location and socioeconomic status
D)ethnicity and age.
Q3) Some pain that benefits from vibration and light massage include:
A)swollen,sprained ankles
B)burns
C)neck and back pains.
D)fractures
Q4) Hospitals have a variety of simple ways to assess pain that can be used across cultures.What are some basic pain measures used to assess pain?
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Chapter 10: Chronic Illness, Terminal Illness, and Death
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Q1) Women coping with an illness who benefit the most from educational groups,and peer discussion groups are those who lack support from:
A)their children
B)their friends
C)partners or doctors
D)community
Q2) Experiments comparing hospices to hospitals are hard to do and unethical.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The leading cause of infant deaths in the United States is:
A)birth defects
B)SIDS
C)choking on objects
D)car accidents
Q4) Different religions deal with death differently.Muslims,or followers of Islam,believe:
A)that last rights need to be performed on a dying person
B)a dying person must do penance
C)the body must not be washed at time of death
D)the seriously ill may not die at home
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Chapter 11: Psychoneuroimmunology and Hiv
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Q1) Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A)AIDS and HIV occur at the same time
B)A person can have AIDS without being HIV positive
C)A person who is HIV negative has developed AIDS
D)A person can be HIV positive without AIDS
Q2) The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions defines someone as having AIDS if he or she meets one or both of these conditions: has had at least one of 21 AIDS-defining opportunistic infections; has had a CD4 cell count (T-cell count)of 200 cells or less.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why does chronic stress suppress the immune system?
A)conserves body resources so the immune system can not work as intended
B)serves as a warning
C)prevents the organism from being too active
D)prevents overactivation and consequently autoimmune disease
Q4) What do studies about the variable of ethnicity and AIDS tell us?
Q5) Poor health behaviors can aggravate HIV by reducing immune functioning.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Culture and Cancer
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Q1) Using medications to disable cancer growth is referred to as:
A)noninvasive therapy
B)chemotherapy
C)radiation therapy
D)allopathy
Q2) A higher incidence of breast cancer has been reported both in European American women and women of:
A)Asian descent
B)African American descent
C)higher socioeconomic status
D)lower socioeconomic status
Q3) The most common sites for cancer are:
A)lungs,breast,and prostrate gland
B)bone,kidney and liver
C)brain,liver and spleen
D)stomach,esophagus,larynx
Q4) How can developmental age affect how people cope with a cancer diagnosis?
Q5) When diagnosed with cancer,men and women have different incidences and mortality.What are some of these differences?
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Q6) How does immunotherapy activate the body's own immune system to fight cancer?
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Chapter 13: Culture and Cardiovascular Disease
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Q1) The best diet to keep cardiovascular disease at bay appears to be the:
A)Atkins diet
B)South Beach diet
C)Indo-Mediterranean diet
D)banana diet
Q2) What ethnic group has the lowest rate of strokes?
A)Asian American
B)Native American
C)African American
D)European American
Q3) In regards to the Type A personality:
A)Type B personality is really at a higher risk for a heart attack
B)it is the hostility factor that can trigger a heart attack
C)anger episodes occur 24 hours prior to a heart attack
D)if you have one,you are at a higher risk for heart attack
Q4) What country has a term for "death from overwork"?
A)Sweden
B)Lithuania
C)Japan
D)London
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Chapter 14: The Future of Health Psychology
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Q1) How do new technical innovations such as behavioral telehealth and Internet sites help someone who needs health care information? How effective are these technical innovations?
Q2) Williams (1995)identified 5 different terms used to refer to the concept of ethnicity. A)True
B)False
Q3) Each of the following are examples of health disparities in the United States EXCEPT: A)infant death rates among African Americans when compared to European Americans B)rate of death for heart disease of African Americans as compared to European Americans
C)men dying of lung disease due to a higher incidence of smoking when compared to women
D)tuberculosis rates are higher in minority ethnic groups as compared to European Americans
Q4) What have you learned about health disparities in the United States?
Q5) How does the shortage of information on culture affect health psychology research?
Q6) How do developmental issues in the human lifespan effect health?
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