Introduction to Health Psychology Pre-Test
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Course Introduction
Introduction to Health Psychology explores the intricate interplay between psychological processes and physical health. This course examines how behavioral, cognitive, and emotional factors influence health, illness, and healthcare, providing students with a foundation in key theories and research methods within the field. Topics include health behavior change, stress and coping mechanisms, the psychosocial aspects of chronic illness, pain management, patient-provider interactions, and the psychological impact of health promotion and disease prevention. By integrating scientific findings with real-world applications, students gain insight into how psychological principles can be applied to improve health outcomes and promote well-being across diverse populations.
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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) The first psychologist to link illness with psychological causes is:
A)Freud
B)Dunbar
C)Alexander
D)Wundt
Answer: A
Q2) 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
Q3) The most basic form of research assessing the association between two variables is known as:
A)experimental
B)random
C)retrospective
D)coefficient
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Cultural Approaches to Health
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Q1) Studies have demonstrated that acupuncture may help in the rehabilitation of stroke patients,and:
A)may help children with delayed growth to get back into the typical growth chart
B)can reduce growth of bacteria in a staph infection
C)can assist patients with spinal chord injuries to gain the ability to use limbs
D)can relieve nausea in patients recovering from surgery
Answer: D
Q2) African culture utilizes herbs in this manner for the improvement of health:
A)fresh for aromatherapy
B)as a spiritual diviner
C)orally and burning
D)for bathing
Answer: C
Q3) Orthomolecular therapies is a treatment in which patients eat substances such as magnesium,melatonin,and mega-doses of vitamins.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Essential Physiology
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Q1) The emotion of fear that comes over a patient who is afraid to go to the dentist originates from this section of the brain.
A)the medulla
B)the hippocampus
C)the amygdala
D)the cerebral cortex
Answer: C
Q2) The endocrine hormone most related to the metabolism of food,especially glucose,is:
A)oxytocin
B)prolactin
C)gastrin
D)insulin
Answer: D
Q3) Babies who have low birth weight have a higher risk of:
A)not receiving quality health care
B)being in a lower level of socioeconomic status
C)developmental and mental complications
D)being neglected by their birth mothers
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Stress Across Cultures
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Q1) Research supports that women with higher levels of oxytocin in their bodies:
A)bond better with their babies
B)behaved in ways that formed better bonds
C)have the potential to inhibit the flight response,and enhances their relaxation.
D)All of the above are true.
Q2) Culture may act as a stressor in the diathesis-stress model of psychopathology by:
A)activating cultural folklore.
B)the confusion that might occur from misunderstood communication.
C)activating certain vulnerabilities and predispositions that may lead to the emergence of psychopathology.
D)causing confusion when interpreting research data.
Q3) Bolger et al.(1989)first recognized and defined two specific types of stress contagion:
A)microsystems and macrosystems
B)gender and race
C)spillover and crossover
D)socioeconomic level,and regional location
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Chapter 5: Coping and Social Support
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Q1) Religious coping has been found to help people:
A)to deal with a range of problems,such as living in a stressful neighborhoods.
B)in both positive and negative dimensions
C)have helped a wide range of people including refugees
D)all of the above are true
Q2) Research indicates that the approach coping skill works well for everyone,and that it works well for all situations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mental health outcomes are worse for immigrants to the United States,as opposed to people from the same cultural group born in the United States who tend to have better mental health outcomes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Each of the following is considered one of the "Big Five"factors in personality except:
A)extraversion
B)neuroticism
C)agreeableness
D)optimism
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Chapter 6: Models of Behavior Change
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Q1) Once health professionals design a smoking intervention that works on one campus:
A)the same intervention should work well on another campus in the same state
B)the same intervention should work well on the high school in the same town.
C)the intervention will work exactly the same way with another group of students from the same campus.
D)the intervention may not necessarily work in exactly the same way anywhere else.
Q2) What happens if an intervention takes a "shot gun" approach?
A)The health psychologists are forcing participants to finish the intervention process..
B)Large numbers of people are exposed to the intervention with the hope that those who need it are included in the exposed group.
C)It is wasting time and money.
D)Both b and c
Q3) What are some of the biological factors that determine health behaviors?
Q4) Regarding culture and the Health Belief Model,what are some specific beliefs held by cultural groups that can be seen as barriers in receiving health care?
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Chapter 7: Health Behaviors: Eating, Physical Activity,
Smoking and Drinking
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Q1) According to Chinese and East Indian cultures,garlic,onions,most grains,alcohol,and oils are all:
A)cold foods
B)hot foods
C)energy foods
D)Qi foods
Q2) People high in the personality traits of _____ are more at risk of becoming alcoholic.
A)neuroticism and conscientiousness
B)neuroticism and extraversion
C)extraversion and optimism
D)pessimism and self-esteem
Q3) Alcohol consumption is responsible for more than:
A)10,000 deaths per year
B)50,000 deaths per year
C)100,000 deaths per year
D)750,000 deaths per year
Q4) Who drinks,how much,and why? Write what you know about alcohol abuse,including binge drinking.
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Q5) What are the biological,psychological,and sociological reasons people smoke?
Chapter 8: Factors Surrounding Illness
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Q1) A patient's attitude to health care and the extent to which they want to be a part of their treatment is referred to as the level of:
A)self-control
B)self-efficacy
C)behavioral involvement
D)patient-practitioner coherence
Q2) Physicians are more likely to recommend knee surgery to a:
A)male patient than to a female patient
B)female patient than to a male patient
C)patient under age 20 than to a patient over 50
D)patient with higher SES than a patient of lower SES
Q3) There are many cultural reasons that explain why people do not recognize that they have symptoms of an illness.Often,a long time passes from a symptom occurrence to its being recognized as a problem.This can be harmful and is referred to as:
A)appraisal delay
B)illness delay
C)utilization delay
D)cultural delay.
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Chapter 9: Pain
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a critical component of the gate control theory of pain?
A)A fibers
B)B fibers
C)C fibers
D)interneurons
Q2) Pain experienced with disease,such as cancer,is classified as:
A)acute
B)chronic malignant
C)chronic sensory
D)acute malignant
Q3) Expressing pain loudly is more acceptable within some ethnic groups than others.One explicit example of the cultural influences in pain experience would be:
A)boys are taught to yell when hurt
B)Middle Eastern women are expected to scream during labor
C)Japanese women are found to scream more during labor than Middle Eastern women
D)older adults are more likely to not ask for help when in pain
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) Important cultural differences exist in how:
A)the dead are treated
B)patients cope with death
C)caregivers cope with death
D)all of the above are true
Q2) One cultural significance regarding the use of hospice care,is that European Americans use hospice services at a lower rate than African Americans and Latinos.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Stanton,Collins and Sworowski (2001)identified two key multidimensional psychological aspects regarding adjustment to chronic illness.First,the individual has to go through a personal cognitive adjustment,then they must go through physical environmental changes to meet the needs of their chronic illness.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are some of the biological and psychological issues that occur for individuals who are learning to adjust to living with chronic illness?
Q5) How do cultural variations affect the process of death and dying?
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Chapter 11: Psychoneuroimmunology and Hiv
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Q1) Being HIV positive does not signify the end of sexual activity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Opportunistic infections occur:
A)only in individuals with HIV
B)only in individuals with AIDS
C)when an immune system damage is more severe
D)in people with normal immune systems
Q3) The median time to receive an AIDS diagnosis among those infected with HIV is 7-10 years.
A)True
B)False
Q4) This health behavior model has been designed specifically for HIV patients:
A)Health Belief Model
B)Theory of Planned Behavior
C)Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills
D)Transtheoretical model
Q5) What is the difference between HIV and AIDS?
Q6) An individual classified as HIV/symptomatic requires the presence of what symptoms?
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Chapter 12: Culture and Cancer
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Q1) Early detection is critical for people with cancer.For example,if diagnosed early enough,_____ of those with localized breast cancer survive at five years.
A)50%
B)65%
C)79%
D)96%
Q2) Not all cells with abnormal cell growth are cancerous.The type of uncontrollable cell growth that destroys healthy tissue is referred to as:
A)neoplasmic
B)malignant
C)benign
D)mutant
Q3) The biggest cultural factor predicting low screening rates is:
A)religion
B)ethnicity
C)socioeconomic status
D)race
Q4) What are some of the beliefs that some traditional Native Americans have about cancer?
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Chapter 13: Culture and Cardiovascular Disease
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Q1) Another name for reduced blood flow is:
A)heart attack
B)coronary bypass surgery
C)ischemia
D)cardiovascular disease
Q2) A patient in a cardiac rehabilitation program frequently will learn how to:
A)increase physical activity,and improve social support
B)reduce salt intake
C)take aspirin everyday
D)All of the these are true
Q3) Changes in heart rate and blood pressure in response to stress is:
A)a coronary episode
B)cardiovascular response
C)cardiovascular reactivity
D)cardiovascular metabolism
Q4) Expressing emotions leads to higher levels of cardiovascular disease.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What physiological factors predict the incidence of cardiovascular disease?
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Q6) What is the relationship between stress and increased cardiovascular disease?
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Chapter 14: The Future of Health Psychology
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Q1) What have you learned about health disparities in the United States?
Q2) Who are the largest consumers of health care?
A)Latinos
B)older adults
C)infants and adolescents
D)Asian Americans
Q3) A challenge for health psychologists to face is the increasing role of _____ in health education.
A)Internet
B)iPods
C)iPhone
D)Bluetooth
Q4) The field of psychology is now taking steps to join research with practice through:
A)Evidence-Based Medicine
B)Evidenced-Based Behavioral Medicine
C)CONSORT guidelines
D)None of the above is true.
Q5) Even though there is a strong need for academic curricula to be culturally diverse,why has there not been enough cultural research?
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