Health Psychology Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Health Psychology explores the psychological processes underlying health, illness, and healthcare. The course examines how factors such as behavior, stress, personality, and social influences affect physical health and well-being. Students will learn about psychological theories and methods used to promote healthy behaviors, as well as how individuals cope with illness, adhere to medical advice, and navigate healthcare systems. Topics include health behavior change, the impact of chronic illness, pain management, and interventions to improve patient outcomes. The course prepares students to understand the dynamic relationship between mind, body, and environment in the context of health.
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Health Psychology 8th Edition by Shelley
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Chapter 1: What Is Health Psychology
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Q1) The most important factor giving rise to health psychology has been the expansion of health care services.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) _______________ refers to the number of cases of a disease that exist at some given point in time._______________ refers to the number of deaths due to particular causes.
A) Morbidity; Mortality
B) Mortality; Morbidity
C) Epidemiology; Pathology
D) Etiology; Epidemiology
Answer: A
Q3) A health psychologist who studies the impact of hospitals and physicians on people's behavior focuses on
A) health promotion and maintenance.
B) prevention and treatment of illness.
C) etiology and correlations of health, illness, and dysfunction.
D) the health care system and the formulation of health policy.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Systems of the Body
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Q1) More than 85% of people suffer back pain at some point in their lives.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The incidence of relapse following initial successful treatment of persistent pain appears to range from about _______________ to ______________.
A) 10 percent; 90 percent
B) 30 percent; 60 percent
C) 50 percent; 75 percent
D) 60 percent; 90 percent
Answer: B
Q3) The affective and motivational aspect of pain seems to be determined primarily by A) A-delta fibers.
B) C-fibers.
C) endorphins.
D) the cerebral cortex.
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) Denial is useful in helping patients
A) control their emotional reaction to illness.
B) monitor their physical condition.
C) seek treatment.
D) become active in their treatment regimen.
Answer: A
Q2) In general,active coping strategies seem to be more consistently associated with good adjustment to chronic illness than avoidant strategies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Successful adjustment to chronic illness is associated with
A) having an appropriate or accurate illness schema about the nature of one's illness.
B) developing an acute model of one's disorder.
C) blaming others for one's illness and thus minimizing self-blame.
D) having a personal sense of control, even in medical situations, in which little personal control is possible.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Health-Promoting Behaviors
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Q1) Mainstreaming children with leukemia
A) involves a comprehensive program that includes the entire family and the child's home and school environment.
B) involves intensive family therapy that takes a systems approach.
C) is seldom an issue because the survival rate for childhood leukemia is very low.
D) is seldom successful because school-aged children react with profound fear and aversion to the leukemic child's appearance and the stigma of cancer.
Q2) Kübler-Ross's theory of death and dying
A) accurately identifies the stages of the dying process.
B) acknowledges the importance of death-related anxiety.
C) broke the taboo surrounding death.
D) All of these.
Q3) The depressed terminally ill patient may be
A) coming to terms with a lack of control.
B) experiencing anticipatory grief.
C) experiencing an expected transitory psychological state which may not require intervention.
D) All of these.
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Chapter 5: Health-Compromising Behaviors
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Q1) People who are both hostile and _______________ show the greatest association between cardiovascular responses and CHD.
A) suspicious
B) angry
C) defensive
D) Type A
Q2) ,the family environment that fosters _______________ may then contribute to hypertension.
A) negative affectivity
B) chronic anger
C) excessive competitiveness
D) cynical distrust
Q3) The mortality rate is around 30 percent during the first month after a stroke.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Research suggests that expressing anger is more reliably associated with cardiovascular reactivity than the state of anger.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Stress
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Q1) The quality of one's interpersonal relationships has been implicated in immunocompromise.Which of the following has NOT been found to be associated with physical and emotional illness?
A) being single
B) bereavement
C) short-term marital conflict
D) divorce and separation
Q2) Type I and Type II diabetes are exactly the same.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),each year cancer causes approximately _______________ deaths in the United States.
A) 200,000
B) 350,000
C) 426,000
D) 560,000
Q4) How do psychosocial factors influence the initiation and course of cancer?
Q5) Explain how stress is related to immune functioning.Exactly how does the immune system respond to stress?
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Chapter 7: Coping,resilience,and Social Support
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Q1) There is no role for health psychologists in international health.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most health psychologists work in
A) private practice.
B) hospitals and clinics.
C) universities and other academic settings.
D) governmental agencies.
Q3) Risk of heart disease ____________ following menopause for women.
A) increases.
B) decreases.
C) disappears.
D) remains the same.
Q4) As the elderly population increases,a corresponding increase is expected in the incidence of
A) acute, but life-threatening, disorders.
B) Type A behavior.
C) chronic disorders.
D) Alzheimer's disease.
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Chapter 8: Using Health Services
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Q1) Some individuals are unable to produce thromboplastin and fibrin.This condition is associated with a clotting disorder called A) arteriosclerosis.
B) anemia.
C) leukopenia.
D) hemophilia.
Q2) The _______________ nervous system connects the central nervous system with all internal organs.
A) peripheral B) automatic
C) autonomic
D) somatic
Q3) Compared to women,men are at greater risk of contracting autoimmune disease. A)True
B)False
Q4) There appears to be a genetic contribution to coronary heart disease and some forms of cancer.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe and discuss the two most common disorders of the nervous system.
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Chapter 9: Patients, providers, and Treatments
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Q1) Research suggests that most people's perceptions of their own health risks are
A) unrealistically optimistic.
B) unrealistically pessimistic.
C) insensitive to feedback.
D) generally accurate.
Q2) transtheoretical model of behavioral change,Julian is in the _______________ stage of health behavior change.
A) precontemplation
B) contemplation
C) preparation
D) action
Q3) The use of positive reinforcers,e.g.,money or new clothing,for weight loss in the treatment of obesity is an example of A) shaping.
B) modeling.
C) operant conditioning.
D) classical conditioning.
Q4) The venue with the largest percentage of the adult population is the workplace. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Management of Pain and Discomfort
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Q1) Anorexia has been found to be correlated with A) body image disturbance.
B) genetic factors.
C) family dynamics.
D) All of these.
Q2) Parents are most likely to undertake injury prevention activities if they A) believe that the recommended steps really will avoid injuries. B) feel knowledgeable and competent to teach safety skills to their children. C) have a realistic sense of how much time will actually be involved.
D) All of these.
Q3) Since the surgeon general established a set of goals for the health of the American public,the number of people who participate in regular exercise has increased by more than ______________.
A) 30 percent
B) 40 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 60 percent
Q4) The higher your BMI,the healthier you are.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Management of Chronic Illness
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Q1) Evaluation of social influence programs suggests that
A) adolescent smoking rates are unaffected.
B) fewer adolescents begin smoking after exposure to such programs.
C) adolescent smoking rates are reduced for up to four years.
D) None of these.
Q2) Smoking increases the risk of:
A) chronic bronchitis.
B) emphysema.
C) lung cancer.
D) All of these.
Q3) More than 2 million college students drive drunk each year.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to your text,who is best able to induce people to stop smoking?
A) psychotherapists
B) physicians
C) employers
D) commercial programs
Q5) Identify and describe the biological,psychological,and sociocultural factors implicated in alcohol abuse.
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Chapter 12: Psychological Issues in Advancing and Terminal Illness
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Q1) In their study of German World Cup matches,Wilpert-Lampen concluded men with cardiovascular disorders are _________ times more likely to suffer an emergency on a game day.
A) 10
B) 5
C) 3
D) 2
Q2) Studies of vulnerable populations,e.g.,children,older adults,exposed to a chronic stressor indicate they
A) eventually habituate to high levels of the stressor.
B) exhibit performance decrements and helplessness.
C) exhibit few cognitive decrements but do show signs of helplessness
D) eventually learn to change their task strategies and attention focus to accommodate the noise in their environments
Q3) The process of primary appraisal involves the evaluation of one's
A) current emotional state.
B) meaning of the event.
C) coping ability.
D) resources.
Q4) Answer the text's question "What makes events stressful?"
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Chapter 13: Heart Disease, hypertension, stroke, and Type Ii
Diabetes
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Q1) Invisible social support
A) is support provided to you without you being aware of it.
B) is the perception that when you need social support it will be available.
C) often produces a sense of guilt.
D) uses others' time and resources.
Q2) ,the most effective social support for men may be
A) a large support network.
B) financial resources.
C) personal and social resources.
D) a confidante.
Q3) _____________________ is a general propensity to deal with stressful events in a particular way.
A) Primary response style
B) Individual difference
C) Personality style
D) Coping style
Q4) Overall,research investigating the effectiveness of social support fails to support the matching hypothesis.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Psychoneuroimmunology and Immune-Related Disorderss
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Q1) The role of psychological factors in the experience of symptoms is evidenced by the fact that women tend to minimize naturally fluctuating bodily states when they are premenstrual.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Bruce has found that he becomes increasingly fatigued after even mild exertion.He discusses his problem with his neighbor,Sam,who recently suffered from a similar problem.Sam tells him that a megadose of vitamin B complex completely eradicated his symptoms.Bruce tries Sam's remedy and does feel a little better.This is an example of A) folk medicine.
B) self-care.
C) disease prototypes.
D) the lay referral network.
Q3) People who are anxious or neurotic are more likely to recognize physical symptoms and worry about them without seeking treatment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Health Psychology: Challenges for the Future
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Q1) DRGs have had a significant effect on modern medical care in that they encourage the early detection and treatment of medical complications.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Malpractice litigation has become more common as medicine becomes more complex.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The philosophy that health is a positive state to be actively achieved,not merely the absence of disease,
A) is not prevalent in Western medicine
B) acknowledges physical and psychological influences but not spiritual influences on health.
C) is holistic health.
D) a traditional therapy in Western medicine.
Q4) Advanced-practice nurses have fewer than two years of basic nursing education. A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain how hospitalization may affect patients' sense of personal control.What reactions are commonly observed?
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