Psychology of Health and Illness Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Psychology of Health and Illness explores the psychological factors that influence physical health, illness, and clinical outcomes. This course examines how stress, personality, behavior, and social environment impact both the onset and progression of various diseases. Topics include health behavior change, coping with chronic illness, patient-practitioner interactions, adherence to medical advice, and the role of psychological interventions in prevention and treatment. Students will also analyze how cultural, environmental, and socioeconomic factors contribute to health disparities, and will critically evaluate current research and theoretical models within health psychology.
Recommended Textbook 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) When we define our culture,our views of ourselves reside at different levels of conscious awareness.This is the definition for:
A)exposure to culture
B)level of analysis
C)cultural impact
D)attitudes
Answer: B
Q2) Compare and contrast the beliefs and values of traditional Mexican American and most Native American tribes concerning health care.
Answer: Mexican American: both natural biological causes and spiritual causes for illness(Trotter & Chavira,1997).Mexican American patients may go to a Western doctor to cure a biological problem,only curanderos,or healers,can be trusted to cure spiritual problems.Beliefs include the balance of body types and energies. Many Native American tribes (especially the Navajo)strive to achieve a balance between human beings and the spiritual world (Alvord & Van Pelt,2000).The trees,animals,earth and sky and the winds are all players in life.Beliefs include spiritual,mental and physical harmony,and harmony with nature.
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Chapter 2: Cultural Approaches to Health
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Q1) Reiki is a component of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).It combines movement and,meditation,and therapists manipulate muscle and connective tissue to enhance the function of those tissues and to promote relaxation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The belief that if an individual had a lot of blood,they would have a cheerful or sanguine personality stems from:
A)Egyptian physicians such as Imhotep,the chief physician to Pharaoh Zozer
B)Vesalius's study of human anatomy
C)Hippocrates humoral theory
D)William Harvey,an English physician
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) Growth and development of the newborn is driven by the secretions of the _____,and coordinated by the hypothalamus.
A)adrenal gland
B)pituitary gland
C)thyroid gland
D)corpus callosum
Answer: B
Q2) The key cells of the immune system are:
A)red blood cells
B)white blood cells,or leukocytes
C)fat cells
D)T cells
Answer: B
Q3) A strong immune response is characterized by:
A)strong organs that are healthy,such as the spleen.
B)younger humans with less contact with varying illnesses.
C)a low number of T cells
D)great differentiation and proliferation.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Stress Across Cultures
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Q1) During secondary appraisal in the Cognitive Appraisal Model,individuals _____.
A)evaluate their resources for dealing with stress
B)unconsciously recall other similar stressful events
C)engage in the use of defense mechanisms
D)experience resistance and then exhaustion
Q2) Psychologically speaking,work or occupational stress can arise from a number of factors.Nine factors are mentioned in your textbook.List five of these factors and write a short example for each one.
Q3) The diathesis-stress model indicates that the diathesis is:
A)vulnerable predispositions
B)the lack of vulnerability for stress
C)the reasons we are stressed
D)the cause for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Q4) Allostasis is the inability to achieve stability through change,and indicates the individual will have mental or physical consequences to not being able to change.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Coping and Social Support
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Q1) One of the most important reasons that studying coping is difficult is due to the fact that:
A)stressors can be positive or negative
B)there is severe cultural diversity in stress
C)individual differences in people and stressors make it difficult to study
D)there are too many subtypes of coping
Q2) Which of the following empirical statements is correct?
A)Optimists tend to cope better with stress and practice better health behaviors.
B)Optimists are more likely to use Avoidant coping strategies.
C)Optimists practice riskier social behaviors.
D)Optimists have challenges with mastery.
Q3) People who enjoy challenges,have a high level of control,and are committed to their lives,are high in _____.
A)optimism
B)hardiness
C)extraversion
D)mastery
Q4) What are McCrae and Costa (1987)Big 5 personality traits,and what are their characteristics?
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Chapter 6: Models of Behavior Change
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Q1) If you believe that you can successfully execute the behavior required to produce the outcome,you are demonstrating:
A)determination theory
B)self-efficacy
C)intention
D)effectiveness
Q2) Discuss health care changes that you have personally accomplished or would like to accomplish in the future,and explain the stages of progression toward this goal using the Transtheoretical Model.
Q3) Jared is a fried fast food addict.He knows that behavior is not very healthy,but he does not intend to change.He is in the Transtheoretical model stage of:
A)precontemplation
B)contemplation
C)preparation
D)action
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?
Q5) What are some of the biological factors that determine health behaviors?
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Chapter 7: Health Behaviors: Eating, Physical Activity,
Smoking and Drinking
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Q1) As the number of overweight and obese people increases,the prevalence of problems such as _____ also increase.
A)gallbladder disease
B)heart disease
C)high blood pressure
D)All of these are true
Q2) The National Center for Health Statistics (2006)indicates that the obesity rates of adult Americans is:
A)13%
B)33%
C)53%
D)60%
Q3) The Chinese believe that pregnancy is a "cold" condition during which the expectant mother should:
A)eat "cold" foods such as ice cream and cheese
B)consume "hot" foods such as oils and expensive cuts of meat
C)eat both "hot" and "cold" foods
D)foods high in fat.
Q4) What are the biological,psychological,and sociological reasons people smoke?
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Q5) What are two eating disorders,and what are their characteristics?
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Chapter 8: Factors Surrounding Illness
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Q1) When patients start a new medication for a chronic illness,intentional nonadherers,compared to adherers,have lower perceptions of the necessity of their new medication and higher levels of concerns about taking it.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The correlation of acculturation and treatment use is different for other alternative medicines.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) Explain how cultural diversity among health care staff can affect the care of patients.Please give three examples of cultural issues that can affect a patient's care.
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Chapter 9: Pain
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Q1) There are many distinct processes critical to the process of experiencing pain._____ takes place at the level of the receptors where the nerve impulses are stimulated.
A)transmission
B)transduction
C)modulation
D)perception
Q2) Pain that is purely physiological with a minimal psychological component is referred to as:
A)neurogenic
B)psychogenic
C)somatosensory
D)neuropathic
Q3) How do members of different ethnic groups give very different meanings to the experience of pain?
Q4) Compare and contrast the biopsychological theories of pain and the gate control theory of pain.
Q5) Describe and discuss differences in pain between males and females.
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Chapter 10: Chronic Illness, Terminal Illness, and Death
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Q1) In many folk and traditional medical systems,a greater emphasis is also placed on _____,which can increase patient satisfaction and adherence to treatment.
A)prescribing medications and ointments
B)communication and explanation
C)communication with the patient only
D)using herbs
Q2) The burning of sage and other herbs is part of many religious ceremonies for this group of individuals,and it is also used to prepare the soul of the dying person for the afterlife.
A)Hindi
B)Native Americans
C)Muslims
D)Hmong
Q3) The term of a family that has a lot of arguing between family members is:
A)broken family
B)risky family
C)extended family
D)blended family
Q4) 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) 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
Q2) The most common ways of passing HIV are by:
A)dirty toilet seats and direct blood contact
B)unprotected sexual contact and direct blood contact
C)kissing and direct blood contact
D)giving blood and receiving blood
Q3) Classification as HIV/symptomatic requires the presence of at least one of the following symptoms in the last 6 months:
A)diarrhea 1 to 6 times per week or more
B)chronic headache 1 to 4 times per week or more
C)stomach upset 5 to 6 times per week or more.
D)chronic fatigue
Q4) Given the fatal course of HIV infection,what psychological factors could explain why people would still continue to engage in unsafe sexual practices/drug use?
Q5) How do psychological factors influence the progression of AIDS?
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Chapter 12: Culture and Cancer
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Q1) _____ have the highest general cancer incidence rates and mortality rates of any population in the United States.
A)Asian Americans
B)African Americans
C)European Americans
D)Latinos
Q2) _____ have the highest mortality rates as compared to incidence rates (if this group gets cancer,more are likely to die from it).
A)Asian Americans
B)African Americans
C)European Americans
D)Native Americans
Q3) Exercise during the younger years of life can reduce the risk of _____ cancer in women.
A)bone
B)ovarian and cervical
C)breast and endometrial cancer
D)lung and bone
Q4) What are the four main types of cancer,and where are they located?
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Chapter 13: Culture and Cardiovascular Disease
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Q1) Heart disease rates for the United States _____ between 1999 and 2005.
A)increased 25%
B)stayed the same
C)decreased for women 24.2%
D)dropped 25.8%
Q2) Developmental issues that increase the risk for cardiovascular disease does NOT include:
A)marriage
B)rapid childhood weight gain
C)first job
D)satisfying relationships
Q3) Quitting smoking has a number of benefits.In the context of cardiovascular disease,results from a large sample longitudinal study (Doll et al.,2004)suggests that:
A)quitting is better for men who are 60 or above
B)quitting is good regardless of age.
C)quitting is only effective for young men
D)quitting is most effective if men stop drinking alcoholic drinks as well
Q4) How does diet play a role in cardiovascular disease?
Q5) How can cultural variations effect the incidence of cardiovascular disease?
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Chapter 14: The Future of Health Psychology
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Q1) Williams (1995)identified 5 different terms used to refer to the concept of ethnicity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One of the major roadblocks to a greater study of culture in health is:
A)the lack of validated assessment in different languages
B)stereotypes and prejudice against other cultures
C)no recognition of the importance of culture
D)too few members of different cultures in the field.
Q3) According to the textbook,the following were all mentioned as being appropriate for online treatment via behavioral telehealth except:
A)hypnosis
B)smoking cessation
C)weight management
D)consultation services
Q4) Collaborative research and _____ both fine-tune the biopsychosocial model.
A)medical technology
B)multidimensional approaches
C)psychological theories
D)social scientists
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