Health Communication Review Questions
Course Introduction
Health Communication explores the methods and strategies used to convey health-related information to diverse populations. The course examines theories and principles of effective communication within public health, healthcare settings, and community outreach. Students learn about message design, health literacy, risk communication, and the use of media and technology to promote positive health behaviors. Through case studies and practical projects, the course addresses challenges such as cultural sensitivity, misinformation, and communication during public health crises, preparing students to develop and implement impactful health communication campaigns.
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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) The procedure referred to as trephination
A) is effective in the treatment of chronic disease.
B) is believed to have been done in the past for superstitious reasons.
C) is frequently used today in the treatment of infectious diseases.
D) was based on the humoral theory of illness.
Answer: B
Q2) May conduct studies of health care services and how they are organized.
A)epidemiology
B)public health
C)medical sociology
D)medical anthropology
E)health psychology
Answer: C
Q3) One of the goals of health psychology is to have an effect on public policy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Bodys Physical Systems
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Q1) Organ transplants fail because the immune system identifies the transplanted tissue as an antigen.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which bodily organs cleanse the blood of impurities?
A) kidneys and liver
B) liver and gall bladder
C) gall bladder and lungs
D) right atrium and right ventricle
Answer: A
Q3) Which pituitary hormone is released during an emergency?
A) ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone)
B) cortisol
C) epinephrine
D) norepinephrine
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Stress: Its Meaning, Impact and Sources
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Q1) 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
Q2) The three types of conflict are approach/approach, approach/avoidance and avoidance/avoidance.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Research on the relationship of hassles and uplifts to health has shown
A) no real relationship of either factor to health.
B) some relationship of hassles to health.
C) some relationship of uplifts to health.
D) uplifts help protect from the effects of hassles.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Stress, Biopsychosocial Factors, and Illness
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Q1) Your friend Janice has to give a presentation to her boss and is very nervous about doing so.In what ways might you give her social support that could help to reduce her stress?
Q2) Research findings that immune function can be conditioned suggests that:
A) immune function can be impaired via conditioning.
B) immune function can be boosted via conditioning.
C) conditioning affects immune functioning only for chronic stressors.
D) both a and b.
Q3) Obesity, alcohol use, low levels of physical activity and a positive family history of hypertension are all related to the development of hypertension.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Current research suggests there is little connection between moderate stress and later development of cancer.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Informational support includes direct assistance such as when people lend money.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Coping With and Reducing Stress
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Q1) Cognitive therapy might be best characterized as a type of modeling or observational learning technique.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Dr. Chu believes that his patient, Samuel, has learned his fear of snakes from watching his mother's negative reactions to snakes.Dr. Chu believes in a _____ explanation of stress-related behaviour.
A) behavioural control
B) biofeedback
C) observational learning
D) classical conditioning
Q3) Includes setting goals and making lists in order to control stress.
A)progressive relaxation
B)denial
C)cognitive restructuring
D)time management
E)informational control
Q4) Consider the idea that the various methods of coping discussed in the chapter represent a multidimensional approach to coping.Defend or refute this notion.
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Chapter 6: Health-Related Beahviour and Health Promotion
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Q1) Briefly describe conflict theory and discuss how it incorporates stress into its model.
Q2) Which of the following statements about health habits/behaviours is supported by research?
A) Health habits tend not to be linked to one another.
B) Health habits always remain stable over time.
C)One single set of attitudes tends to govern our health behaviours.
D) Very few people practice health habits on a regular basis.
Q3) Jen was placed on medication to control her high blood pressure.After several weeks, she could feel no difference so she stopped taking her pills.
A)positive reinforcement
B)negative reinforcement
C)extinction
D)punishment
E)modeling
Q4) Fear-arousing warnings, such as those found on packs of cigarettes, are a special case of loss-framed messages.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Reducing Substance and Abuse
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Q1) The strongest factor in determining teenagers' decreasing use of drugs is
A)stress
B)genetics
C)drug availability
D)beliefs about the harmfulness of drugs.
Q2) Which of the following concepts accounts for the fact that Hank tries to keep pace with his friends in terms of number of drinks consumed when they are out together at a bar?
A)abstinence violation effect
B)substance-related cues
C)negative reinforcement
D)modeling
Q3) May involve removing ashtrays or matches from the home of a smoker.
A)aversion strategies
B)self?monitoring
C)stimulus control
D)response substitution
E)behavioural contracting
Q4) Discuss the relationships between the terms addiction, physical dependence, tolerance, withdrawal, psychological dependence and substance abuse.
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Chapter 8: Improving Nutrition, Weight Control and Diet, Exercise and Safety
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Q1) The type of lipoprotein associated with decreased cholesterol deposits in blood vessels is
A)low?density (LDL)
B)very low density (VLDL)
C) high?density (HDL)
D)very?high?density (VHDL)
Q2) Weight?lifting and push?ups are forms of _____ exercise.
A)isotonic
B)isometric
C)isokinetic
D)aerobic
Q3) Simple sugars are to _____ as amino acids are to _____:
A)carbohydrates; proteins
B)fats; vitamins
C)proteins; fibre
D)vitamins; minerals
Q4) Individuals who lose weight and regain it will find it easier to subsequently lose weight again.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Using Health Services
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Q1) Compare and contrast inpatient treatment modalities.
Q2) Hospitals are to _____ as nursing homes are to _____.
A)emergency care; long term care
B)long term care; emergency care
C)inpatient services; home health care services
D)outpatient services; inpatient services
Q3) In terms of the sheer amount of information physicians should give to patients, more is generally better.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to the health belief model, which of the following initiates a decision making process to seeking medical care?
A)Perceiving benefits to be greater than costs.
B)Perceiving costs and seriousness of disease to be significant.
C)The presence of threatening symptoms.
D)The availability of accessible health care.
Q5) Compare and contrast the American and Canadian health care systems.
Q6) Discuss how a person's ideas about illness influence seeking medical care.
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Chapter 10: In the Hosital: the Setting, Procedures and
Effects on Patients
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Q1) When Jesse is in the hospital he expects that he should be pampered and taken care of by the nurses.Jesse could be classified as a _____ patient.
A)problem
B)active
C)passive
D)good
Q2) Non?medical employees of the hospital without patient care responsibilities.
A)hospital administrators
B)medical director
C)staff or attending physicians
D)residents
E)nurses
Q3) The use of depersonalization by medical staff may be a method of self-protection from the stress of caring for another human with serious health problems.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the roles and responsibilities of three occupational jobs in the hierarchy of an American hospital system.
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Chapter 11: The Nature and Symptoms of Pain
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Q1) Ischemia is another name for
A)the cold pressor procedure.
B)phantom limb pain.
C)chronic pain.
D)insufficient blood flow.
Q2) In his classic work on the meaning of pain in soldiers and surgical patients, Beecher found which of the following?
A)Soldiers experienced far more pain than surgical patients.
B)The soldiers' wounds were probably less extensive than the intensive wounds left by surgery.
C)The soldiers were far less likely than surgical patients to request medication.
D)The extreme fright experienced by soldiers made their pain worse.
Q3) The problems with the acceptance of pattern theory include
A)the requirement of intense stimuli to trigger pain.
B)the overlooking of psychological factors in pain.
C)the pain area of the brain does not exist.
D)all of the above
Q4) Provide support for the idea that organic and psychogenic pain should be considered as a continuum.
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Chapter 12: Managing and Controlling Clinical Pain
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Q1) Which group is more likely to self-administer more pain-killers than needed?
A)Patients who are relatively young.
B)Patients with high levels of anxiety.
C)Patients who have low levels of social support.
D)all of the above
Q2) During painful leg strengthening exercises following knee surgery, Marvin continued to tell himself that, "It hurts, but this must be done if I am to walk without a limp." He was using the cognitive strategy of A)imagery.
B)redefinition.
C)distraction.
D)remission.
Q3) Injection of local anesthetic to area surrounding spinal cord.
A)peripherally active analgesics
B)centrally acting analgesics
C)epidural block
D)biofeedback
E)transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
Q4) Compare and contrast behavioural versus cognitive methods for pain treatment.
Q5) Compare and contrast acute clinical pain with chronic clinical pain.
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Chapter 13: Serious and Disabling Chronic Health Illnesses:
Causes, Management, and Coping
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Q1) Philippe has just been diagnosed with asthma.Using Moos' crisis theory and the factors of that theory, describe how Philippe is likely to adjust to his disease.
Q2) Which of the following statements reflects the relationship between self-blame and coping with chronic illness?
A)Self-blame may affect coping at first but tends to fade away quickly.
B)Self-blame has little impact on coping with a chronic illness.
C)Self-blame is linked to more aggressive coping attempts.
D)Self-blame is associated with higher levels of depression and poor coping.
Q3) Adolescents are most likely to avoid their treatment regimens for chronic illness because of
A)the painful nature of treatment regimen.
B)fear of parental separation.
C)their desire to avoid appearing different from their friends.
D)pre?conceived ideas about illness.
Q4) For Type I diabetes, the main acute complication that occurs is
A)heart disease.
B)ketoacidosis.
C)hypertension.
D)hypoglycemia.
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Chapter 14: Heart Disease, Stroke, Cancer, and Aids:
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Q1) A radiation treatment for cancer.
A)balloon angioplasty
B)external beam therapy
C)chemotherapy
D)lumpectomy
E)HAART
Q2) The most common deficits experienced by stroke patients involve A)speech.
B)motor action.
C)cognitive dysfunction.
D)memory loss.
Q3) May prolong survival, but is not a cure for HIV/AIDS
A)balloon angioplasty
B)external beam therapy
C)chemotherapy
D)lumpectomy
E)HAART
Q4) The highest rate of cancer deaths today is from neoplasms in the breast.
Q5) How is the rehabilitation of cardiac patients influenced by the psychosocial impact of the disease?
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Chapter 15: Whats Ahead for Health Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following are recognized as problems encountered by health psychologists when conducting a cost-benefit analysis?
A)They have never been trained on how to conduct them.
B)Although costs might be more easily assessed, the full benefits of a program are difficult to determine.
C)Most psychosocial interventions appear to produce more costs than benefits.
D)Health psychologists are unlikely to view this type of analysis as important.
Q2) Pick one of the controversies described in this chapter and discuss its' relevance to health psychology.
Q3) The textbook suggests the use of telemedicine will
A)occur only via the Internet.
B)be used for information delivery as well as diagnostic and treatment services.
C)be difficult and costly to develop.
D)not be useful in the practice of medicine.
Q4) A patient's right to choose or withdraw treatment may be discussed in a hospital's bioethics committee.
A)True
B)False
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