Psychology of Chronic Illness
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Course Introduction
The Psychology of Chronic Illness explores the psychological and social impact of living with long-term health conditions. This course examines the emotional responses to diagnosis, coping mechanisms, behavioral changes, and the role of family and social support systems. Students will learn about psychological models of adjustment, interventions to improve quality of life, and strategies for healthcare professionals to support patients. The course integrates research findings with real-world case studies to develop a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between psychological factors and chronic disease management.
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Health Psychology 1st Canadian Edition by Edward P. Sarafino
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Chapter 1: An Overview of Psychology and Health
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Q1) The "systems" approach assumes simple systems are embedded within complex systems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following is not necessarily a component of a useful theory?
A) It relates previously seemingly unrelated information.
B) It enables us to make predictions.
C) It has been proven to be correct.
D) It organizes known facts.
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following was NOT an advance in science and medicine in the 18th and 19th centuries?
A) The growing use of dissection in autopsies to aid in the acquisition of knowledge.
B) The rejection of the belief that the mind and body are separate.
C) The discovery that microorganisms cause certain diseases
D) New surgical and anesthetic techniques.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Bodys Physical Systems
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Q1) The transmission of messages through the axon ordinarily follow the order from axon, to cell body, to dendrite.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following diseases of the liver is not transmitted by sexual contact?
A) hepatitis A
B) hepatitis B
C) hepatitis C
D) All the above diseases are transmitted by sexual contact.
Answer: A
Q3) The _______________ nervous system controls the activities of the visceral organs under normal conditions; the __________________nervous system mobilizes the
Body in response to stress.
A) parasympathetic; sympathetic
B) sympathetic; parasympathetic
C) somatic; autonomic
D) autonomic; somatic
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Stress: Its Meaning, Impact and Sources
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Q1) Using concepts from the text to answer this question, what stress factors might be affecting your performance on this exam?
Answer: not answered
Q2) Crossover occurs when
A)work stress is carried home by an individual.
B) work stress is carried to work by an individual.
C) work stress is carried home and affects someone else in the home.
D) work stress is carried home and is still felt the next day.
Answer: C
Q3) Which general adaptation syndrome stage is most like the fight?or?flight response?
A) alarm
B) secondary appraisal
C) exhaustion
D) adaptation
Answer: A
Q4) Consider that you are a consultant to a stress researcher.She is beginning a new study and wants to incorporate some measures of stress.What advice would you give her?
Answer: not answered
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Chapter 4: Stress, Biopsychosocial Factors, and Illness
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Q1) Kobasa and Maddi proposed that hardiness includes the three characteristics of
A) coherence, commitment, and resilience.
B) control, coherence, and commitment.
C) control, commitment, and challenge.
D) love, honor, and truth.
Q2) At the present time, all the research evidence indicates that hardiness is linked to good health.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Marked by believing one is responsible for successes and failures.
A)Type A behaviour
B)hardiness
C)resilience
D)stamina
E)internal locus of control
Q4) The Jenkins Activity Survey is a self-report instrument used to measure
A) resilience in children.
B) locus of control.
C) Type A behaviour.
D) self-efficacy.
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Chapter 5: Coping With and Reducing Stress
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Q1) Irving Janis suggested that preoperative fear is related to postoperative recovery and adjustment.What was the nature of the relationship he suggested?
A) Low levels of preoperative fear are related to worsened recovery and adjustment.
B) High levels of preoperative fear are related to worsened recovery and adjustment.
C) Preoperative fear is related to poor recovery but only in children or the elderly.
D) Preoperative fear affects postoperative adjustment but has little impact on recovery.
Q2) Systematic desensitization is based upon the view that fears are learned through the process known as
A) operant conditioning.
B) modeling.
C) behavioural control.
D) classical conditioning.
Q3) Discuss the effectiveness of the 3 methods of stress management reviewed in the chapter.
Q4) Compare and contrast systematic desensitization with biofeedback.
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Chapter 6: Health-Related Beahviour and Health Promotion
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Q1) Results from a study of hypertensive patients' perceptions of symptoms found that these patients
A)make accurate estimates of their blood pressure levels.
B)are poor estimators of their own blood pressure.
C)estimate their blood pressure well, but not as well as normotensives.
D)rarely change their medication-taking behaviours in light of the symptoms they experience.
Q2) Conflict theory emphasizes the impact of ___________ on all major decisions.
A) stress
B) irrational thinking
C) emotional stability
D) complete information
Q3) Which of the following statements about health habits/behaviours is supported by research?
A) Health habits tend not to be linked to one another.
B) Health habits always remain stable over time.
C)One single set of attitudes tends to govern our health behaviours.
D) Very few people practice health habits on a regular basis.
Q4) Briefly describe conflict theory and discuss how it incorporates stress into its model.
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Chapter 7: Reducing Substance and Abuse
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Q1) A narcotic or pain reducing substance.
A)emetine
B)morphine
C)barbiturate
D)marijuana
E)methadone
Q2) Which of the methods below was not used by the majority of people trying to quit smoking in a stop-smoking contest?
A)Quitting ''cold turkey''.
B)Going it alone.
C)Providing material rewards for success.
D)Using oral substitutes.
Q3) Depressant which decreases arousal and increase relaxation.
A)emetine
B)morphine
C)barbiturate
D)marijuana
E)methadone
Q4) Distinguish between the various types and effects of the different categories of drugs.
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Chapter 8: Improving Nutrition, Weight Control and Diet, Exercise and Safety
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Q1) Protein-sparing modified fast regimens:
A)are used mainly for those who are obese
B)is safe, used short term and requires medical supervison
C)are used only when other approaches have failed
D)all of the above
Q2) Simple sugars are to _____ as amino acids are to _____:
A)carbohydrates; proteins
B)fats; vitamins
C)proteins; fibre
D)vitamins; minerals
Q3) Early studies found that diets rich in _____ are associated with lower cancer risk.This finding is not _____.
A)fat; supported
B)beta-carotene; definitive
C)lipids; supported
D)sodium; definitive
Q4) High density lipoproteins (HDL) are associated with a decreased likelihood of the build-up of fatty plaque in blood vessels.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Using Health Services
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Q1) Bert had some symptoms about which he was concerned. He asked his wife and co?workers about them and was urged to contact a doctor. These people constituted a lay referral system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is NOT usually classified as an acute condition?
A)Flu.
B)Fractures.
C)Arthritis.
D)Sprains.
Q3) Which age group is most likely to visit a physician for chronic disease treatment?
A)the elderly
B)adults of all ages
C)children
D)infants
Q4) Newly hired by a health care clinic, what advice do you have for your boss regarding ways to increase adherence among the clinic's patients?
Q5) Discuss how a person's ideas about illness influence seeking medical care.
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Chapter 10: In the Hosital: the Setting, Procedures and
Effects on Patients
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Q1) Teaches natural childbirth techniques that promote informational, behavioural, and cognitive control.
A)Lamaze
B)Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
C)Millon Behavioural Medicine Diagnostic (MBMD) Behaviour
D)The Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale (PAIS)
E)video preparation
Q2) Describe the roles and responsibilities of three occupational jobs in the hierarchy of an American hospital system.
Q3) The first institutions established to care for the sick housed:
A) sick people.
B) orphaned children and the poor.
C) travellers who needed lodging.
D) all of the above.
Q4) Becoming overly?compliant and exacting in following medical orders in the hospital are symptoms of reactance.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Nature and Symptoms of Pain
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Q1) Higher pain thresholds are reported by people exposed with which of the following experimental stimuli?
A)A lecture or a funny movie.
B)A funny movie or a baseball game.
C)A relaxing tape or a funny movie.
D)White noise or a lecture on pain.
Q2) Specificity theory is to _____ as pattern theory is to _____.
A)separate; shared
B)chronic; acute
C)acute; chronic
D)shared; separate
Q3) The EMG is useful for assessing the muscle tension frequently associated with pain. A)True B)False
Q4) Chronic discomfort that is psychogenic in origin is referred to as A)pain disorder.
B)malingering.
C)chronic?organic syndrome. D)acute pain.
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Chapter 12: Managing and Controlling Clinical Pain
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Q1) Based on the counter irritation principle.
A)operant approach
B)acupuncture
C)distraction
D)redefinition
E)interpersonal therapy
Q2) Compare and contrast behavioural versus cognitive methods for pain treatment.
Q3) Which of the following reflects the clinical caution regarding the use of narcotics for chronic pain?
A)Clinical research needs to be done on a wider variety of chronic pain conditions.
B)The clinical effects of taking narcotics daily are widely known but seldom considered in treatment.
C)Researchers know why low addiction levels occur when such drugs are taken for pain relief but ignore this information.
D)Acupuncture is a far more effective treatment.
Q4) Aspirin and acetaminophen are examples of centrally-acting analgesics.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Serious and Disabling Chronic Health Illnesses:
Causes, Management, and Coping
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Q1) Associated with occupations which are physically demanding
A)osteoarthritis
B)rheumatoid arthritis
C)spinal cord injuries
D)epilepsy
E)Alzheimer's
Q2) A primary reason to use insight or family therapy in the treatment of chronic illness includes
A)changing distorted thoughts about the illness.
B)the discussion of reinforcement techniques in intervention.
C)the explicit need to increase compliance with treatment regimen.
D)addressing anxieties and changes in self-concept and relationships.
Q3) Robbie is having trouble coping with the embarrassing joint deformities that have resulted from his rheumatoid arthritis.According to Moos, this is a(n)____ factor.
A)illness
B)personal
C)physical
D)background
Q4) Compare and contrast the various forms of rheumatic diseases.
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Chapter 14: Heart Disease, Stroke, Cancer, and Aids:
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Q1) Among Canadian women, AIDS mortality rates are
A)higher for Blacks and Aboriginals than Whites.
B)higher for Whites than Blacks or Aboriginals.
C)higher for Aboriginals than both Blacks and Whites
D)none of the above.
Q2) May be associated with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and eventual encephalopathy.
A)angina pectoris
B)myocardial infarction
C)carcinoma
D)stroke
E)AIDS
Q3) Common forms of effective rehabilitation treatments for victims of stroke include:
A)speech therapy.
B)physical therapy.
C)biofeedback.
D)all of the above.
Q4) How is the rehabilitation of cardiac patients influenced by the psychosocial impact of the disease?
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Chapter 15: Whats Ahead for Health Psychology
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Q1) Possess ingrained and difficult-to-change health related values.
A)18 to 60-year-old white North American males
B)the very young and very elderly
C)children and adolescents
D)adults and the elderly
E)women
Q2) The textbook suggests the use of telemedicine will
A)occur only via the Internet.
B)be used for information delivery as well as diagnostic and treatment services.
C)be difficult and costly to develop.
D)not be useful in the practice of medicine.
Q3) The textbook suggests a number of changes that need to occur in health psychology to increase our understanding of health and illness in different populations.Discuss 2 of his suggestions.
Q4) Extensive research has been done on how health beliefs and habits develop during childhood and adolescence.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Pick one of the controversies described in this chapter and discuss its' relevance to health psychology.
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