Health Psychology
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Course Introduction
Health Psychology explores the psychological factors that influence health, illness, and healthcare. This course examines how behavior, emotions, and cognition impact physical well-being, and addresses the development of healthy behaviors, the management of chronic diseases, stress and coping mechanisms, and patient-provider interactions. Students will learn about health promotion, disease prevention, and the social and cultural factors affecting health outcomes. Through theoretical frameworks and empirical research, the course provides insight into the role psychologists play in improving healthcare delivery and enhancing 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) During the past 30 years,death rate from heart disease in the United States has declined.At the same time,
A) medical costs have increased.
B) smoking rates have increased.
C) life expectancy has decreased.
D) acceptance of the biomedical model has increased.
Answer: A
Q2) Stress is the leading cause of death in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) In the United States,people living below the poverty level generally
A) have low educational levels.
B) are more likely than other people to have health insurance.
C) are members of ethnic minority groups.
D) both a and c are correct.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Conducting Health Research
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Q1) The cause of a disease or condition is most readily suggested by A) case control studies.
B) experimental designs.
C) correlational studies.
D) a single-participant design.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is part of an ex post facto study but not an experimental study?
A) manipulation of an independent variable
B) control of extraneous variables
C) measurement of a dependent variable
D) inclusion of a subject variable
Answer: D
Q3) The number of new cases of a particular disease during a specific period of time is incidence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Seeking and Receiving Health Care
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Q1) People experiencing high levels of stress are _____ likely to report symptoms and ______ likely to have their symptoms acknowledged as indicating a disease.
A) more . . .more
B) more . . .less
C) less . . .less
D) less . . .more
Answer: B
Q2) Jane and Betty are both experiencing fever and nausea.Jane's friend Myrna asks her if she is sick and tells her that she looks terrible,but when she sees Betty,Myrna says nothing about Betty's appearance.Research suggests that Jane
A) is likely to seek health care but to advise Betty not to.
B) is more likely than Betty to seek health care.
C) will seek alternative health care rather than go to a physician.
D) and Betty will both make appointments with a physician.
Answer: B
Q3) In the United States,medical errors are the second leading cause of death.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Adhering to Healthy Behavior
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Q1) When examining how age relates to adherence,individuals who are young and individuals who are old have the lowest rates of adherence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) With regard to age,studies show that nonadherence
A) increases with age.
B) decreases with age.
C) has a curvilinear relationship with age.
D) is not related to age.
Q3) Those who do not share the cultural beliefs of Western medicine
A) are just as likely as those who do to comply with the advice of a physician.
B) may not comply with a physician's advice but may comply with a practitioner from the same cultural tradition.
C) are likely to be members of ethnic minorities and are less compliant than European Americans.
D) are more likely to comply with the advice of a nurse than a physician.
Q4) Women have a higher rate of adherence than men do.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 5: Defining, Measuring, and Managing Stress
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Q1) When the physiological stress response has been active for a prolonged amount of time,______ may occur.
A) allostatic load
B) survival
C) "fight or flight" response
D) coping
Q2) Individual nerve cells are called A) synapses.
B) protons.
C) neurons.
D) ganglions.
Q3) John,a Montana rancher,lives five miles from his nearest neighbor.John's living conditions could be described as A) dense but not crowded.
B) crowded but not dense.
C) both crowded and dense.
D) neither crowded nor dense.
Q4) Research has confirmed a gender difference in responses to stress. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Understanding Stress, Immunity, and Disease
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Q1) Vaccinations may be less effective in protecting against stress among people who experience ________.
A) stress
B) many daily hassles
C) few daily hassles
D) exposure to cigarette smoke.
Q2) Immunity occurs when
A) memory lymphocytes persist after initial exposure to a virus.
B) antigens build up.
C) antibody levels fall.
D) interferon is transferred from one person to another.
Q3) Stress may contribute to diabetes through its possible effects on _______.
A) smoking
B) heavy drinking
C) obesity
D) exercise
Q4) Discuss the implications of immune deficiency.
Q5) Almost all ulcers are caused by stress.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Understanding and Managing Pain
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Q1) Systems of self-paced administration of analgesic drugs
A) overcome the problem of undermedication.
B) increase the probability of addiction.
C) lead to a situation in which about 45% of patients overmedicate themselves.
D) all of these.
Q2) When pain is experienced in some other location than the site where the pain was inflicted,this is called
A) phantom limb pain.
B) referred pain.
C) prechronic pain.
D) chronic recurrent pain.
Q3) The ______ system allows us to interpret certain sensory information as pain.
A) somatosensory
B) endocrine
C) skeletal
D) muscular
Q4) Acute pain has no benefit to the person who is experiencing it.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Evaluate the success and hazards of medical interventions for pain.
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Chapter 8: Considering Alternative Approaches
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Q1) The notion of a vital energy that brings mind and body together is unique to traditional Chinese medicine.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following manipulative techniques originated in traditional Chinese medicine?
A) acupressure and tui na
B) acupuncture and Reiki
C) Shiatsu massage and counterpressure
D) Shiatsu massage and Reiki
Q3) Analyze who uses alternative treatments.
Q4) Evidence suggests that those patients MOST likely to receive pain relief through hypnosis are
A) men.
B) highly suggestible.
C) different from those who would respond well to a placebo.
D) all of these.
Q5) What alternative procedures and products are most commonly used?
Q6) What are the advantages of integrative medicine? What are the barriers?
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Q7) Discuss the similarities and differences among the alternative medical systems.
Chapter 9: Behavioral Factors in Cardiovascular Disease
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Q1) Which ethnic group has the highest risk for cardiovascular death?
A) Native Americans
B) Hispanic Americans
C) African Americans
D) Asian Americans
Q2) Approximately ________ of Americans have hypertension.
A) one-third
B) one-fourth
C) one-half
D) two-thirds
Q3) People with low levels of education have high rates of death from cardiovascular disease.The most valid explanation for this observation is that
A) low educational levels cause CVD.
B) high educational levels protect against CVD.
C) educational level is related to hypertension, obesity, and access to the health care system.
D) educational level is related to gender, which is related to amount of smoking, which is related to CVD.
Q4) What is the role of health psychology in cardiac rehabilitation?
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Chapter 10: Behavioral Factors in Cancer
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Q1) Individuals who keep a healthy weight,maintain a healthy diet,stay physically active,and drink in moderation have a _____ lower risk for cardiovascular disease-related death than individuals who do not adhere to those healthy behaviors.
A) 21%
B) 33%
C) 48%
D) 66%
Q2) HIV infection is associated with increases in A) lung cancer.
B) Kaposi's sarcoma.
C) non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
D) both Kaposi's sarcoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Q3) The number one preventable cause of death in the United States is A) high serum cholesterol.
B) cigarette smoking.
C) AIDS.
D) accidents.
Q4) Evaluate the role of eating and drinking in the development of cancer.
Q5) Differentiate malignant from nonmalignant growths.
Q6) What can a person do to avoid cancer?
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Chapter 11: Living With Chronic Illness
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Q1) Heterosexual sex is more likely to
A) spread HIV infection than sharing needles.
B) lead to HIV infection in women than in men.
C) lead to HIV infection in men than in women.
D) spread HIV infection than homosexual sex.
Q2) A common psychological problem among Alzheimer's patients is depression,with as many as ______ of patients reporting depressive symptoms.
A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 30%
D) 50%
Q3) Early-onset Alzheimer's disease has a higher incidence rate than late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Chronic diseases are more common than acute diseases,but
A) fewer people die of chronic diseases.
B) people who have a chronic disease try to live as normal a life as possible.
C) chronic diseases are more easily cured than acute illnesses.
D) people with a chronic disease are more likely to seek medical treatment.
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Chapter 12: Smoking Tobacco
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Q1) Heavy cigarette smoking decreases life expectancy by ______ years.
A) 2.1
B) 4.7
C) 8.8
D) 15.2
Q2) Evaluate the statement,"Social pressure is the main reason why people start smoking."
Q3) Which of these smokers exhibits an optimistic bias?
A) Jim overestimates the danger of smoking and believes that he has a very high chance of developing a smoking-related disease before age 60.
B) Loraine believes that smoking is not really dangerous and so she has about the same risk for smoking-related diseases as do other people.
C) Robbie overestimates the danger of smoking and believes that she has about the same risk for smoking-related diseases as do other people.
D) Joe understands the danger of smoking but believes that his risk of a smoking-related disease is less than that of other smokers.
Q4) Evaluate the dangers of passive smoking.
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Chapter 13: Using Alcohol and Other Drugs
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Q1) When a drug becomes incorporated into the functioning of the body's cells and thus becomes necessary for "normal" functioning,________ has occurred.
A) dependence
B) tolerance
C) withdrawal
D) death
Q2) If not consumed,alcohol turns to vinegar.If it is consumed,it A) also turns to vinegar. B) turns to ethanol.
C) is digested by the stomach and passed through the excretory system.
D) turns mostly to sugar.
Q3) The alcohol myopia view of drinking assumes that alcohol consumption leads to A) the tendency to deflate one's accomplishments and abilities.
B) loss of control over one's drinking.
C) increased friendliness and sexiness.
D) increased aggression and hostility.
Q4) Alcohol is a drug that does not produce withdrawal symptoms.
A)True
B)False
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) ______ propels food through the digestive system,a largely involuntary process.
A) Peristalsis
B) Gastric juices
C) Salivary Glands
D) Parotids
Q2) What are the behavioral differences between anorexia,bulimia,and binge eating? Are there similarities?
Q3) All of the following are explanations that researchers have suggested for why obesity has increased in the past two decades EXCEPT:
A) increased consumption of fast food.
B) increased consumption of sweetened soda.
C) increased consumption of genetically modified foods.
D) decreases in physical activity.
Q4) In the study of experimental starvation,the effects of starvation on participants were all of the following EXCEPT:
A) aggressiveness
B) losing interest in normal activities
C) cooperation with others
D) obsession with food
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Chapter 15: Exercising
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Q1) Physical activity can be a useful treatment of _______ and may offer some protect against the development of _________.
A) Type II diabetes; Type I diabetes
B) Type I diabetes; Type II diabetes
C) Type I diabetes; gestational diabetes
D) Type I diabetes; Type I diabetes
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) Adults who participate in regular physical exercise show
A) greater attention.
B) greater executive functioning.
C) greater memory.
D) all of the above
Q4) What is the role of exercise in weight control?
Q5) What are some methods to improve adherence to physical activity?
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Chapter 16: Future Challenges
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Q1) College students can increase their health literacy by
A) gathering health information from the Internet.
B) listening to family and friends' recommendations.
C) evaluating the findings from health research.
D) visiting their physician more often.
Q2) College students are more likely than their peers to ______________.
A) smoke cigarettes
B) drive after drinking
C) use cell phones while driving
D) both c and d
Q3) African Americans have a longer life expectancy than European Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What explains the difference between life expectancy and health expectancy?
A) economic factors
B) the changing nature of disease
C) health care costs
D) both a and b
Q5) Contrast life expectancy with health expectancy.What are the implications of the difference?
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