Psychology of Chronic Illness Test Questions
Course Introduction
Psychology of Chronic Illness explores the psychological and social aspects of living with long-term health conditions. This course examines how chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and autoimmune disorders impact individuals' emotional well-being, coping mechanisms, relationships, and quality of life. Students will learn about theoretical models explaining adjustment to illness, the role of health behaviors, and the influence of factors like stigma, social support, and cultural beliefs. The course also covers ethical, clinical, and policy considerations in supporting patients and families, highlighting interventions to enhance psychological resilience and promote effective disease management.
Recommended Textbook Health Psychology 8th Edition by Shelley E. Taylor
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Chapter 1: What Is Health Psychology
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Q1) _______________ 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
Q2) A single-factor model of illness assumes that
A) there is one ultimate cause of all illnesses.
B) health should be emphasized over illness.
C) illness can be explained in terms of biological disorder.
D) All of these.
Answer: C
Q3) Although health psychologists have been employed in health settings for many years,they have difficulty establishing their credibility with physicians and other health care professionals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Systems of the Body
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Q1) According to research investigating personality variables observed in chronic pain patients,
A) there is a pain-prone personality, which, like the disease-prone personality, is characterized by negative affectivity.
B) a significant proportion of the population appears to be predisposed to experience pain.
C) personality change is often a consequence of pain, but personality variables are seldom involved as causes.
D) different personality factors may be involved in different types of pain.
Answer: D
Q2) More than 85% of people suffer back pain at some point in their lives.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A-delta fibers are unmyelinated nerve fibers that transmit dull or aching pain.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Health Behaviors
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Q1) 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
Q2) The Internet is a good source of information about skills for coping with common illness-related problems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) 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
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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) Which of the following is NOT one of the problematic issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide cited in your text?
A) inequity of access to life-sustaining medical technologies
B) lack of guidelines regarding cost-effectiveness and appropriateness of use
C) lack of consensus on the appropriate roles of the individual and health care practitioners
D) All of these choices are mentioned.
Q3) A living will outlines
A) a patient's wishes to undergo euthanasia.
B) a patient's request that extraordinary life-sustaining procedures not be used.
C) the conditions under which a patient requests to remain alive.
D) the disposition of one's belongings after death.
Q4) Describe the psychological and physiological correlates of grief.
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Chapter 5: Health-Compromising Behaviors
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Q1) Sudden death from heart attack is most likely to occur
A) at home.
B) at work.
C) on vacation.
D) while the patient is asleep.
Q2) Identifying patients with metabolic syndrome rarely helps predict heart attacks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following would BEST predict compliance with a diabetic treatment regimen?
A) the number of persons in the diabetic's social support network
B) training the diabetic to discriminate when his or her blood glucose level needed to be modified
C) any intervention that focuses on improving a sense of self-efficacy and the ability to independently regulate one's behavior
D) stress management and relaxation training
Q4) People who are high in cynical hostility generally have a high level of social support.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Stress
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Q1) Studies of diabetic control and adherence indicate that the best outcomes are found among adolescents who have A) individual therapy.
B) family therapy.
C) parents who are actively involved in tasks such as monitoring glucose levels.
D) a dense social support network.
Q2) Type I and Type II diabetes are exactly the same.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The most promising development in the treatment of AIDS is A) an HIV vaccine.
B) AZT.
C) HAART.
D) DDI.
Q4) Past sexual practice is an important predictor of AIDS-related risk behaviors. A)True
B)False
Q5) she would like to know what to expect in terms of her friend's medical condition.How long do people live with HIV? What factors influence prognoses?
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Chapter 7: Coping,resilience,and Social Support
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Q1) You want to become a health psychologist conducting research on the lifestyle choices that impact management of Type II Diabetes.To what kind of graduate program should you apply?
A) social psychology
B) clinical psychology
C) physiological psychology
D) developmental psychology
Q2) There is no role for health psychologists in international health.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Risk of heart disease ____________ following menopause for women.
A) increases.
B) decreases.
C) disappears.
D) remains the same.
Q4) Explain current pressures toward cost containment of health care costs.In what ways do these economic factors affect research and practice in health psychology?
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Chapter 8: Using Health Services
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Q1) Nonspecific immunity may be mediated by the A) skin.
B) phagocytes.
C) inflammatory response.
D) All of these.
Q2) Lymphocytes play an important role in fighting infection and disease by
A) secreting digesting enzymes that dissolve foreign particles.
B) producing antibodies that destroy substances through the antigen-antibody reaction.
C) secreting platelets that engulf foreign particles so they may be excreted.
D) producing monoblasts that increase the amount of hemoglobin in the blood.
Q3) The _______________ carry blood from the heart to oxygenate organs and other tissues.
A) arteries
B) veins
C) capillaries
D) All of these.
Q4) Hepatitis A is typically transmitted through food and water.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Patients, providers, and Treatments
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Q1) According to the demographic factors discussed in the text,which of the following individuals is most likely to practice good health behaviors?
A) Joe, a 45-year-old high school dropout who works two jobs in order to support his family
B) Dan, a 30-year-old high school graduate who works as a file clerk in a small insurance agency who expects to be married next month
C) Bill, a divorced 50-year-old corporate attorney
D) Sam, a 30-year-old assistant professor who has just celebrated his fifth wedding anniversary
Q2) Behavioral assignments
A) place complete responsibility and control in the hands of the therapist who develops the assignments and thus decreases clients' perceptions of control.
B) show great promise but have not been extensively used in health management programs to date.
C) that rely on written agreements are most effective.
D) that rely on verbal agreements are most effective.
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Chapter 10: The Management of Pain and Discomfort
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Q1) Overeating in adolescence and adulthood is likely to affect
A) the size of fat cells.
B) the number of fat cells.
C) both the size and number of fat cells.
D) the metabolic rate.
Q2) According to your text,about _______________ is spent each year on commercial weight loss programs.
A) $10 million
B) $30 million
C) $10 billion
D) $30 billion
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a factor that reduces compliance with mammography recommendations?
A) Early detection of breast cancer through the use of mammography has had little effect on survival rates.
B) Mammograms frequently are not a standard part of older women's medical care.
C) Older women have fragmented medical care.
D) Minority women often do not have a regular source of health care.
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Chapter 11: Management of Chronic Illness
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Q1) Social engineering may be more effective than behavioral treatments in attacking the problem of alcoholism because
A) social engineering costs less than treating every person with alcoholism.
B) about 85 percent of persons with alcoholism do not receive treatment.
C) treatment programs are never effective.
D) there are not enough therapists to treat all persons with alcoholism.
Q2) The best predictor of long-term abstinence among smokers is
A) social support.
B) environmental support.
C) self-efficacy.
D) remaining vigilant about not smoking.
Q3) Trying cigarettes makes a person significantly more likely to use other drugs in the future.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Smoking among adolescents is
A) independent of other health-compromising behaviors.
B) likely to occur in the presence of peers.
C) an effort to maintain a positive mood.
D) unrelated to individual differences in personality.
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Chapter 12: Psychological Issues in Advancing and Terminal Illness
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Q1) The process of secondary appraisal involves the evaluation of one's
A) current emotional state.
B) perception of the event.
C) coping ability and resources.
D) All of these.
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) Which of the following would be considered a stressful life event?
A) lack of career fulfillment
B) a significant change in job responsibilities
C) questioning one's identity and goals
D) All of these.
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) Information from others that one is loved and cared for,esteemed and valued,and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation is called
A) coping.
B) internal resources.
C) social support.
D) external resources.
Q2) There appears to be developmental differences in general coping strategies because problem-focused coping appears to emerge during childhood,and emotion-focused coping develops somewhat later.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Coping is considered successful if it
A) reduces physiological arousal.
B) allows the person to return to prestress activities (when appropriate).
C) reduces psychological arousal.
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) Last week Robert noticed his urine was pale pink.Today he telephoned the appointment desk at the local clinic.The soonest he can see his physician is two weeks away.Robert is in the ________________ stage of delay behavior.
A) illness
B) appraisal
C) behavioral
D) medical
Q2) Medical delay
A) accounts for at least 30 percent of all delay behaviors.
B) is more likely when symptoms deviate from the practitioner's disease prototype.
C) is more likely in cases where the diagnosis is not serious. D) is unrelated to the diagnostic process.
Q3) Highly prevalent risk factors or disorders are generally regarded as less serious than rare or distinctive risk factors or disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe and discuss the four stages of delay behavior.Provide an original example for each stage.
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Chapter 15: Health Psychology: Challenges for the Future
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Q1) Providers have more positive attitudes toward
A) black or Hispanic patients.
B) acutely ill patients.
C) sicker patients.
D) patients with psychological disorders.
Q2) Estimates of nonadherence vary from a low of 15 percent to more than 93 percent.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The number of psychologists in hospital settings has _______________ over the past 10 years.
A) more than doubled
B) decreased
C) remained the same
D) first decreased, then increased
Q4) The status differences inherent between traditional providers and their patients may be reflected in the
A) active involvement of patients with their treatment regimens.
B) use of jargon or of baby talk.
C) manner in which patients interrupt medical providers.
D) provider's overestimation of the level of patients' technical understanding.
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