Psychology of Chronic Illness Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Psychology of Chronic Illness explores the psychological factors involved in the onset, progression, and management of chronic diseases. The course examines how individuals psychologically respond to chronic diagnoses, cope with ongoing symptoms, and navigate changes to daily life and identity. Topics include the impact of chronic illness on emotional wellbeing, family dynamics, and social relationships, as well as evidence-based interventions for improving mental health and quality of life for those living with long-term conditions. Students will learn about theoretical frameworks, current research, and best practices in supporting individuals dealing with chronic illness from a psychological perspective.
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Chapter 1: What Is Health Psychology
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Q1) AIDS is a chronic illness.This is because it
A) is psychosomatic in origin.
B) is difficult for patients to manage, but seldom contributes to disability or death.
C) can be cured only if the patient and the practitioner work together as a team.
D) is an illness in which psychological and social factors play an important role in both cause and management.
Answer: D
Q2) According to the biopsychosocial model,health and illness are determined by A) microlevel processes.
B) macrolevel processes.
C) an interaction of microlevel and macrolevel processes.
D) None of these.
Answer: C
Q3) The biopsychosocial model emphasizes the importance of an effective patient-practitioner relationship.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Systems of the Body
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Q1) Biofeedback training
A) is an inexpensive pain control method.
B) shows robust evidence for pain control.
C) probably is no more effective for controlling pain than are relaxation techniques.
D) effects are clearly understood.
Answer: C
Q2) study of wartime injuries investigated the effect of _______________ on pain.
A) placebos
B) fear
C) arousal
D) interpretation
Answer: D
Q3) Chronic pain patients _______________ compared to persons without chronic pain.
A) experience pain more acutely
B) have increased sensitivity to noxious stimulation
C) have impairment in pain regulatory systems
D) All of these.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Health Behaviors
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Q1) Researchers investigating gender differences in the receipt of social support have found that
A) disabled women are more effective than disabled men in establishing effective social support networks.
B) being married appears to protect men, but not women, from institutionalization.
C) married women spend fewer days in nursing homes than married men.
D) disabled men are less likely to be married than disabled women.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is important to include in a comprehensive rehabilitation program?
A) exercise.
B) stress management.
C) training in adaptive devices.
D) All of these.
Answer: D
Q3) Functional somatic disorders are more common in men than in women.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Health-Promoting Behaviors
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the factors found to predict mortality in the elderly age group?
A) distant family relationships
B) depression
C) reduced life satisfaction
D) hardiness
Q2) According to Kübler-Ross,the dying patient who asks "why me?" is experiencing A) anxiety.
B) bargaining.
C) denial.
D) anger.
Q3) Evaluations of hospice care indicate that,compared to patients who receive traditional treatment,hospice patients
A) live longer.
B) receive fewer invasive procedures.
C) report lower levels of anxiety.
D) are more satisfied with their interpersonal care.
Q4) Describe the psychological and physiological correlates of grief.
Q5) Describe Kübler-Ross's theory of dying.Evaluate the usefulness of her theory.
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Chapter 5: Health-Compromising Behaviors
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Q1) What ethnic differences have been found in the incidence of hypertension? What racial and psychosocial factors may be implicated in these ethnic differences?
Q2) ,the family environment that fosters _______________ may then contribute to hypertension.
A) negative affectivity
B) chronic anger
C) excessive competitiveness
D) cynical distrust
Q3) _______________________ remains an underdiagnosed and untreated contributor to CHD morbidity and mortality.
A) High cholesterol.
B) Hostility.
C) Genetics.
D) Depression.
Q4) Stress has been implicated in
A) problems in glucose metabolism.
B) the aggravation of Type II diabetes once diagnosed.
C) adverse effects on adherence to diabetic treatment regimens and diet.
D) All of these.
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Chapter 6: Stress
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Q1) Impaired immune functioning has been found in samples of adults who have experienced short-term marital conflict,marital separation,and divorce.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),the numbers of AIDS cases are growing fastest among A) ethnic minorities.
B) gay men.
C) minority women.
D) IV drug users.
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) Compare Type I diabetes with what you already learned about Type II diabetes in the previous chapter.How are they similar and how are they different?
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Chapter 7: Coping,resilience,and Social Support
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Q1) The most significant change in American health care that has implications for health psychology is
A) the expense of high technology.
B) trends in physician education.
C) the rapid growth of prepaid, colleague-centered service.
D) patient consumerism.
Q2) Changes in society,technology,and microorganisms are leading to
A) the emergence of new diseases.
B) the reemergence of diseases that once were successfully controlled.
C) problems with drug-resistant strains of once successfully controlled disorders.
D) All of these.
Q3) Explain the role of health psychology within the context of health care reform in the United States.Explain what is meant by comprehensive intervention models.What contributions might a team of health psychologists make to health care delivery under this model?
Q4) Discuss the path to becoming a health psychologist.How can undergraduate,graduate,and postgraduate work contribute towards gaining employment.
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Chapter 8: Using Health Services
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Q1) Discuss the role of genetic counseling.Why is it controversial? How can it be used effectively by health psychologists?
Q2) The _______________ regulate(s)bodily fluids by removing surplus water,surplus electrolytes,and the waste products generated by the metabolism of food. A) urethra
B) bladder
C) ureters
D) renal system
Q3) June was involved in an automobile accident in which she suffered extensive damage to the cerebral cortex.Since the accident,she has experienced difficulty in coordinating voluntary movement.In particular,June has difficulty controlling activities on the right side of her body.June most likely suffered damage in the A) left frontal lobe.
B) right frontal lobe.
C) left parietal lobe.
D) right parietal lobe.
Q4) Compare and contrast nonspecific and specific immune mechanisms.Provide an example of each.
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Chapter 9: Patients, providers, and Treatments
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Q1) The use of Antabuse in the treatment of alcoholism involves having the client sip his or her favorite drink while ingesting Antabuse.After several pairings,alcohol becomes associated with the Antabuse and elicits a(n)______________.
A) conditioned response
B) conditioned stimulus
C) unconditioned response
D) unconditioned stimulus
Q2) Research has established a small to moderate relationship between self-efficacy and health behavior change and maintenance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) You are designing a health-promotion program for a retirement community.According to the text,which of the following behaviors would be the most important to target in your intervention?
A) eliminating smoking
B) developing a regular exercise program
C) maintaining a healthy diet
D) All of these are equally important.
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Chapter 10: The Management of Pain and Discomfort
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Q1) As few as _______________ nights in a row of poor sleep can impair metabolic and hormonal function.
A) six
B) seven
C) eight
D) nine
Q2) Communications to adolescents and young adults about sunscreen use should emphasize
A) short-term health risks.
B) long-term health risks.
C) gains that sunscreen use will bring them.
D) None of these are useful.
Q3) Which of the following people is LEAST likely to exercise regularly?
A) Joe, a 10-year-old boy
B) Jill, a 15-year-old girl
C) Jack, a 35-year-old man
D) Juana, a 45-year-old woman
Q4) How does sleep correlate with health and specifically weight loss.Explain and use examples from your text.
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Chapter 11: Management of Chronic Illness
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Q1) It is estimated that by 2050 three million ______________ men will die each year from the effects of tobacco.
A) American
B) Indian
C) Chinese
D) Argentinean
Q2) Studies have found relapse rates of _______________ or more in the two to four years following treatment for alcoholism.
A) 10 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 75 percent
Q3) Research supports the idea that most alcoholics eventually receive some form of inpatient or outpatient treatment.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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) Hassles are minor life events that
A) have a cumulative effect on health and illness.
B) are not confounded with mental and physical illness.
C) have an objective, but not subjective, component.
D) All of these.
Q2) Stress can be defined as a negative emotional experience accompanied by A) biochemical and physiological changes.
B) cognitive changes.
C) behavioral changes.
D) All of these.
Q3) Stressful Life Events (SLE)inventory?
A) It is not correlated with illness and health behaviors.
B) It fails to consider individual differences in the experience and reporting of events. C) It only counts unresolved stressful events.
D) It fails to consider that the number of illnesses experienced over a period of time is more important than the severity and the duration of these illnesses.
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) Problem-focused efforts would be most effective in coping with the worry and stress due to
A) having two final exams scheduled for the same day.
B) waiting to hear if your application to graduate school has been accepted.
C) learning your father has two months to live.
D) learning you failed a class.
Q2) Research has found that talking about one's troubles results in a short-term improvement of mood but has little long-term effect on health and illness.
A)True
B)False
Q3) On the whole,persons who provide social support to others _______________ than those who do not provide social support.
A) live longer
B) have better mental health
C) have better physical health
D) All of these.
Q4) Explain how individual differences in personality are related to coping.
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Chapter 14: Psychoneuroimmunology and Immune-Related Disorderss
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Q1) Compared to those with no history of a particular medical condition,people who have a history of a particular medical condition are more likely to
A) increase their vigilance and monitor their physical status to detect transitory changes in their bodily state.
B) increase their vigilance and seek out information about the condition in an attempt to regain mastery and control.
C) underestimate its prevalence in the general population and thus overestimate the threat to their health.
D) overestimate its prevalence in the general population and thus regard their situation as less serious.
Q2) One component of illness schemas involves perceptions of the range of symptoms and treatments associated with a particular disease.This component refers to the _______________ of the disease.
A) identity
B) consequences
C) cure
D) causes
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Chapter 15: Health Psychology: Challenges for the Future
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Q1) Rita is trained in traditional nursing and also has received special training in primary care.She is affiliated with a group of private practice physicians,sees her own patients,and provides routine medical care,prescribes treatment,and attends to chronically ill and walk-in patients with a myriad of disorders.Rita is a(n)
A) advanced practice nurse.
B) nurse-practitioner.
C) physician's assistant.
D) clinical nurse specialist.
Q2) Overall adherence rates are poorest
A) for obtaining medical tests.
B) with complex self-care regimens.
C) when the advice is perceived as medical.
D) when the advice is vocational.
Q3) Dissatisfied patients are more likely to
A) seek treatment that meets their emotional rather than medical needs.
B) use medical services in the future and thus be accused of malingering.
C) seek more technically competent medical treatment.
D) schedule frequent medical checkups.
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