Introduction to Health Psychology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Introduction to Health Psychology explores the interplay between psychological factors and physical health, examining how behaviors, beliefs, and emotions influence well-being, illness, and recovery. Students will learn about stress and coping mechanisms, the psychological aspects of chronic illnesses, health behavior change, and the impact of social and cultural contexts on health. The course also covers the role of psychological interventions in promoting healthy lifestyles, preventing disease, and improving health outcomes, utilizing research and theoretical perspectives to understand the mind-body connection within the healthcare system.
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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) The discipline that emphasizes the prevention of illness and the enhancement of health in currently healthy people is called
A) behavioral health.
B) health psychology.
C) behavioral medicine.
D) medical psychology.
Answer: A
Q2) What two factors can help explain some of the ethnic differences in health and life expectancy?
A) Poverty and age
B) Poverty and low education level
C) Low education level and age
D) Low education level and drug use
Answer: B
Q3) Despite national media coverage to the contrary,poverty is not related to the mortality rate in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Conducting Health Research
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Q1) A study comparing smokers and nonsmokers on their scores on a personality inventory is most likely to be
A) an ex post facto design.
B) an experimental design.
C) a correlational study.
D) a retrospective study.
Answer: A
Q2) Theories should be viewed as
A) tools of philosophy.
B) tools of science.
C) tested hypotheses.
D) untested hypotheses.
Answer: B
Q3) 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
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Chapter 3: Seeking and Receiving Health Care
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Q1) A _______ is the event that separates illness behavior from sick role behavior.
A) heart attack
B) diagnosis
C) hospitalization
D) death
Answer: B
Q2) Of all ethnic groups,_____ are the most likely to report a visit to a physician.
A) Asian Americans
B) European American
C) African Americans
D) Mexican Americans
Answer: B
Q3) Women are more likely than men to seek health care,possibly because
A) they feel less stress than men.
B) they tend to be more introverted.
C) they have more diseases than men.
D) they may be more sensitive to their internal body status.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Adhering to Healthy Behavior
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Q1) Central to the transtheoretical model is the assumption that both behavior change and relapse take the shape of a A) triangle.
B) rectangle.
C) cone.
D) spiral.
Q2) Gina smokes two packs of cigarettes a day,but lately she has begun to seriously think about quitting.According to the transtheoretical model,Gina is in the _____ stage.
A) precontemplation
B) contemplation
C) action
D) maintenance
Q3) In Stage 2 of the precaution adoption process model,people are aware of a hazard,but they believe that others are at risk,and they are not.This attitude is called A) an optimistic bias.
B) a pessimistic bias.
C) a rationalization.
D) the ostrich effect.
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Chapter 5: Defining, Measuring, and Managing Stress
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Q1) A recent meta-analytic review showed that emotional disclosure is more effective in helping people with __________ than _________problems.
A) physical, psychological
B) psychological, physical
C) emotional, physiological
D) psychological, emotional
Q2) What is the difference between glands of the endocrine and neuroendocrine systems?
A) Glands in the neuroendocrine system are controlled by the nervous system.
B) Glands in the endocrine system are controlled by the autonomic nervous system not the sympathetic nervous system.
C) Glands in the neuroendocrine system secrete hormones, but those in the endocrine system do not.
D) Glands in the endocrine system secrete hormones, but those in the neuroendocrine system do not.
Q3) In what ways does social support influence health?
Q4) Evaluate the behavioral interventions for managing stress,addressing the types of stress-related problems for which each is successful.
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Chapter 6: Understanding Stress, Immunity, and Disease
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Q1) Stress is a factor in
A) tension but not vascular headaches.
B) vascular but not tension headaches.
C) both vascular and tension headaches.
D) neither tension nor vascular headaches.
Q2) 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.
Q3) The type of stress that is most closely associated with headaches is
A) major life events, such as loss of a loved one.
B) daily hassles.
C) persistent fears and anxiety.
D) depression.
Q4) T-cells are a type of nonspecific immune system response.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the implications of immune deficiency.
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Chapter 7: Understanding and Managing Pain
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Q1) Almost ____ of all cancer patients' pain was untreated.
A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 50%
D) 90%
Q2) What are the similarities and differences of behavior modification and cognitive therapy as used for pain management? How does cognitive behavior therapy combine these approaches?
Q3) Specificity theory hypothesizes that
A) a person's interpretation of pain is more important that tissue damage in determining the intensity of pain.
B) acute pains intensify over time.
C) the experience of pain is approximately equal to the amount of tissue damage or injury.
D) chronic pain can become acute pain over time.
Q4) The largest organ of the body is the skin.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Evaluate the success and hazards of medical interventions for pain.
Q6) Differentiate among the three stages of pain.
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Chapter 8: Considering Alternative Approaches
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Q1) Traditional Chinese medicine hypothesizes that qi is a force that is essential to health and that acupuncture and qi gong improve health by affecting qi.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to traditional Chinese medicine,when the qi is blocked or becomes stagnant,
A) health impairment occurs.
B) people lose weight.
C) an increase in creativity occurs.
D) lung capacity increases but digestive capacity decreases.
Q3) The key components of ________ are the focus of attention on moving the body in a controlled fashion,ignoring other situations or problems.
A) mindfulness meditation
B) transcendental meditation
C) guided imagery
D) yoga
Q4) Manipulation techniques include massage and chiropractic treatment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Behavioral Factors in Cardiovascular Disease
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Q1) The third most frequent cause of death is _______,which is the result of oxygen deprivation to the brain.
A) hypertension
B) angina pectoris
C) a stroke
D) a myocardial infarction
Q2) The circulation of blood permits
A) the transportation of oxygen to body cells.
B) the removal of carbon dioxide from cells.
C) both a and b.
D) neither a nor
Q3) Beginning in the early 1990s,death rates from cardiovascular disease
A) have been quite consistent throughout all the nations of the world.
B) dropped faster in Eastern Europe than in the United States.
C) have been higher for Russian women than for Russian men.
D) increased drastically in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries.
Q4) What behaviors can alter the risk for cardiovascular disease?
Q5) Twice as many men as women die of cardiovascular disease.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Behavioral Factors in Cancer
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Q1) With regard to radiation and cancer,evidence suggests that
A) any exposure to radiation greatly increases one's risk for cancer.
B) any exposure to radiation slightly increases one's risk for cancer.
C) dental and medical personnel who work with X-rays have a significantly greater risk of cancer.
D) long-time employment in a nuclear power plant increases cancer death rates.
Q2) During the first six years of the 21st century,cancer death rates in the United States have exceeded death rates from cardiovascular disease.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Bettye is a 40-year old X-ray technician who smokes about two packs of cigarettes a day,drinks about two alcoholic beverages a day,and eats a diet low in saturated fats.Her number one risk for cancer death is her
A) job.
B) smoking.
C) diet.
D) gender.
Q4) Differentiate malignant from nonmalignant growths.
Q5) What can a person do to avoid cancer?
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Chapter 11: Living With Chronic Illness
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Q1) For a person with a terminal illness,a personal re-examination of his or her life
A) usually leads to disintegration and despair.
B) often causes a loss of personal relationships and social support.
C) may lead the person to find a new meaning in his or her life.
D) is typically different for people with cancer than for people with heart disease.
Q2) Common to both diabetes and asthma are
A) triggers.
B) problems of adherence.
C) insulin injections.
D) troubles in breathing.
Q3) Most protective measures to prevent transmission of HIV include ways to A) prevent exchange of body fluids.
B) isolate the infected people.
C) reduce the amount of sexual activity, especially among gay men and lesbians.
D) avoid gay men and lesbians.
Q4) The incidence of Type 2 diabetes is decreasing for children and adolescents.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Smoking Tobacco
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Q1) The annual number of excess deaths in the United States attributable to smoking has been Estimated to be about
A) 25,000.
B) 57,000.
C) 175,000.
D) 443,000.
Q2) Barrett is 14 years old and has smoked about 200 cigarettes in her lifetime.Barrett should know that
A) quitting will be quite easy because she is not yet a regular smoker.
B) she can smoke for another four or five years and then quit.
C) quitting now will be quite difficult.
D) quitting later will be impossible without formal therapy.
Q3) In understanding who is addicted to cigarette smoking,smoking more than ______ in one's lifetime increases the difficulty of quitting.
A) 1 cigarette
B) 50 cigarettes
C) 100 cigarettes
D) 1000 cigarettes
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Chapter 13: Using Alcohol and Other Drugs
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Q1) Which enzyme breaks alcohol into aldehyde,a toxic chemical?
A) alcohol dehydrogenase
B) aldehyde dehydrogenase
C) malate dehydrogenase
D) acetaldehyde dehydrogenase
Q2) Since 1980,the per capita consumption of alcohol in the United States has
A) increased dramatically.
B) increased slightly.
C) remained about the same.
D) declined.
Q3) Low to moderate levels of drinking decrease the risk for __________,but high levels of drinking increase the risk for ___________.
A) automobile crashes . . . automobile crashes.
B) Alzheimer's disease . . . Korsakoff syndrome
C) bicycle injuries . . . ulcers
D) gallstones . . . lung cancer
Q4) Light to moderate drinking provides health benefits compared to abstaining from drinking.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Eating and Weight
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Q1) The relationship between eating and weight maintenance is best described by which of the following statements?
A) Weight gain is proportional to overeating.
B) A person who eats more than 3,000 calories per day will gain weight.
C) Metabolic rate is a factor in weight maintenance.
D) Fat people eat fewer calories per day than do thin people.
Q2) Which of these people has the GREATEST danger of developing a health problem?
A) a woman who is 15 pounds overweight
B) a woman whose weight is 10% above the weight recommended by the weight charts
C) a man whose weight is a stable 12% above the weight recommended by the weight charts
D) a man who gains 20% above the ideal recommended weight
Q3) When humans or rats have a variety of tasty foods available,
A) humans increase their food intake, but rats do not.
B) rats increase their food intake, but humans do not.
C) both rats and humans increase their food intake.
D) food intake remains constant for both.
Q4) A person with a body mass index of 45 would be considered to be obese.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Exercising
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Q1) The emphasis on exercise as a factor in weight control programs has come about because of research that found that
A) exercise elevates metabolism.
B) exercise burns more calories than was previously believed.
C) exercise acts differently on the muscle tissue of obese people.
D) isometric exercise is the most advantageous type.
Q2) The optimal time for beginning an exercise program is during A) early childhood.
B) adolescence.
C) young adulthood, that is, 25 to 30.
D) middle age, that is, about 40 to 45.
Q3) The type of exercise that requires the LEAST amount of physical activity is A) isometric.
B) isotonic.
C) isokinetic.
D) anaerobic.
Q4) The most effective type of exercise for reducing the risk for cardiovascular disease is anaerobic exercise.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Future Challenges
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Q1) Which of these groups of people is LEAST served by health care in the United States?
A) Native Americans
B) well-educated African Americans
C) Cuban Americans
D) European Americans
Q2) The number of years a person lives is ________ and the number of years person lives free from disability is _________.
A) health expectancy; well-year
B) health expectancy; life expectancy
C) life expectancy; health expectancy
D) life expectancy; life-year
Q3) Health research that provides guidelines for a healthy lifestyle comes from
A) the Alameda County Study.
B) TV news reports.
C) the HART trials.
D) the Cunningham study.
Q4) Hispanic Americans have a lower death rate than European Americans.
A)True
B)False
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