Public Health Psychology Exam Review
Course Introduction
Public Health Psychology explores the intersection between psychological science and public health, focusing on how psychological principles, research, and interventions can be used to promote and protect the health of populations. This course examines the social, behavioral, and environmental determinants of health, the impact of health disparities, and strategies for prevention and health promotion at the community and policy levels. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of how individual behaviors relate to broader public health challenges and learn to design, implement, and evaluate psychological interventions aimed at improving population well-being. The course integrates both theory and applied approaches to address current public health issues such as chronic disease, infectious disease, mental health, and health behavior change.
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The Psychology of Health and Health Care A Canadian Perspective 5th Edition by Gary Poole
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Chapter 1: Welcome to Health Psychology
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Q1) Significantly more people will follow instructions to take an antibiotic to relieve a painful ear infection than will change their lifestyle to reduce high blood pressure.The behavioural explanation for this phenomenon is
A)delayed gratification theory
B)asymptomatic conditioning theory
C)the Health Belief Model
D)behavioural non-compliance
E)reasoned action
Answer: A
Q2) A health psychologist can help a cardiac patient restore his or her quality of life by
A)addressing fears of having another heart attack
B)setting up a post surgical exercise program
C)developing the conviction that change is inevitable
D)teaching appropriate dietary skills
E)referring the patient to a cardiologist
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Stress and Coping
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Q1) Personal control,a factor that influences a person' ability to cope with stress,may be achieved
A)emotionally or behaviourally
B)cognitively or behaviourally
C)emotionally or cognitively
D)socially or psychologically
E)socially or emotionally
Answer: B
Q2) An emerging field that encourages psychologists to use fewer negative frameworks and focus more on effective human functioning is
A)personal control psychology
B)cognitive psychology
C)positive psychology
D)psychosomatic medicine
E)stress inoculation training
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Psychoneuroimmunology
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Q1) Immune function can not be measured by
A)time taken for wounds to heal
B)number of antibodies which develop in response to vaccinations
C)white blood cell count
D)the number of immune system cells in the spleen or bone marrow
E)enumerative assay
Answer: D
Q2) Thus far,Spiegel and his colleagues (1998)concluded that the effect of stress on tumour growth is
A)potentiating rather than initiating
B)initiating and potentiating
C)initiating rather than potentiating
D)statistically insignificant
E)clinically insignificant
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Health Communication
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Q1) Poor communication between physicians and patients can sometimes be attributed to patient behaviours including all but one of the following
A)patients do not answer questions truthfully
B)patients may not remember physician's instructions
C)lack of information seeking behaviour
D)anxiety
E)rushing the physician into making a diagnosis
Q2) Julie has a gastric ulcer.Recently,she heard about a new medication that she thought might be helpful.She set up an appointment with her physician so she could get his views.Their communication pattern at the appointment would be considered
A)biopsychosocial
B)consumerist
C)expanded biomedical
D)narrowly biomedical
E)psychosocial
Q3) How can we best assess the quality of health information found on the internet?
Q4) Discuss the principles for assessing quality in Health-related web sites
Q5) What are the implications of having so much information freely available on the internet?
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Chapter 5: Health and Physical Activity
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Q1) What is the role of imagery in sport? Distinguish between internal and external imagery.
Q2) A psychological training program applied to sport or exercise would likely include all of the following except
A)relaxation skills
B)self-talk
C)injury prevention
D)goal setting
E)imagery
Q3) Biddle and Murtrie (2001)reported from their research review on the effects of exercise on coronary heart disease that
A)active men have a decreased risk over active women
B)active women have a decreased risk compared with active men
C)the Harvard Alumni Study was invalid because only males were assessed
D)physical exercise is inversely related to coronary heart disease in adults
E)the risks of inactivity are the same as smoking and hypertension
Q4) What is the difference between sport psychology and exercise psychology?
Q5) What factors determine a particular individual's reaction to a sports injury?
Q6) Describe the five forms of physical activity and give an example of each.
Q7) Describe Bandura's four sources of efficacy expectations.
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Chapter 6: Health-Compromising Behaviours
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Q1) Virtually all cases of ______________________ occur in smokers and rarely occur in non-smokers.
A)cardiovascular disease
B)cerebrovascular disease
C)pancreatic cancer
D)cancer of the kidney
E)emphysema
Q2) Historically,the most common approach to losing weight is
A)prevention
B)dieting
C)education
D)pharmacological treatment
E)behavioural
Q3) A characteristic which is common in anorexia nervosa,bulimia nervosa and muscle dysmorphia is
A)fear of getting fat
B)low self-esteem
C)competitiveness
D)constant dieting
E)excessive exercise
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Chapter 7: Chronic and Life-Threatening Illnesses
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Q1) When is chemotherapy most likely to be used for cancer patients? Describe the possible side effects.What is anticipatory nausea and how is it explained from a psychological viewpoint?
Q2) Breast cancer patients' most common concerns during the early stages of their illness include all of the following except A)body integrity issues
B)fear of radiation therapy
C)cancer relapse
D)inadequate medication
E)death
Q3) Support groups provide all of the following except A)opportunities for problem-focused coping
B)empathy
C)information
D)education
E)prescribed treatment
Q4) What is meant by the term "quality of life"? Discuss the importance of this concept and the ways it can be measured.
Q5) What is social comparison and how does it affect people in support groups?
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Chapter 8: Pain
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Q1) The gate control theory of pain has been the leading theory of pain for over 25 years.Unfortunately,the theory does not account for
A)the effects of depression associated with an injury
B)speed of pain transmission
C)phantom limb pain
D)the influence of distraction on the experience of pain
E)excitatory influence on the transmission cells
Q2) Which of the following is characteristic of chronic intractable benign pain?
A)intense episodes of acute pain followed by relief
B)pain lasting 3-6 months without resolution
C)pain all the time with varying intensity
D)continuous discomfort that gradually intensifies
E)pain most of the time of constant intensity
Q3) Bensonian relaxation is a method of
A)progressive muscle relaxation
B)meditative relaxation
C)hypnosis
D)biofeedback
E)mindfulness meditation
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Chapter 9: The World of Health Care: Places, procedures, and People
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Q1) Some practitioners and researchers argue that an informed patient copes better and therefore all patients should receive the same information about their hospital procedures.This is known as
A)the uniformity myth
B)empowering care
C)disempowering care
D)increasing patient satisfaction
E)focus on distraction
Q2) Advanced practice nursing refers to A)nurses with specialized clinical skills
B)the caring side of health care delivery
C)the curing side of health care delivery
D)technologically specialized health care
E)generalist nurses with years of experience
Q3) A common symptom of burnout includes
A)lack of technical competence
B)lack of belief in one's professional competence
C)an inflated sense of one's professional competence
D)boredom with one's accomplishment
E)boredom with one's profession
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Q1) Aysha has been assigned someone to provide interpretive services and help explain the health care system.In other words,Asha has been assigned a(n)
A)language interpreter
B)nurse navigator
C)nurse practitioner
D)cultural liaison
E)paramedic
Q2) What is the source of negative attitudes toward the swine flu vaccination?
A)fear of developing autism
B)the rate of GBS appeared to increase in those vaccinated
C)clinical trials of vaccine or non-vaccine conditions
D)the high risk of GBS compared with the low risk of getting the flu
E)the failure of previous vaccination programs
Q3) All of the following are examples of vulnerable populations in Canada except:
A)the elderly
B)street youth
C)those living in poverty
D)those living in remote areas
E)parents who choose not to vaccinate
Q4) Explain how culture affects health in Canada.
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Chapter 11: Health Promotion
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Q1) Research in health promotion has found that loss-framed messages are more effective at promoting ______________ behaviours while gain-framed messages are better at promoting __________ behaviours.
A)prevention;detection
B)healthy;unhealthy
C)unhealthy;healthy
D)low-risk;high-risk
E)detection;prevention
Q2) When designing an advertising campaign for health promotion,all of the following should be taken into consideration except:
A)level of education of the audience
B)literacy levels of the audience
C)credibility of person delivering the message
D)repetition of the message
E)coordinating healthy public policy
Q3) What is meant by self-care and mutual aid in Canada's framework for health promotion? What is the importance of these two concepts in health promotion?
Q4) Describe the steps involved in the evaluation of health promotion initiatives.
Q5) What are the goals and challenges of health promotion in Canada?
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Chapter 12: Conducting Research in Health Psychology
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Q1) Marty recently submitted a case study to a health psychology journal.He is aware that the findings of his study
A)may not be accepted because it is a case study
B)had a very small control group
C)cannot always be generalized to other people
D)was prospective rather than retrospective
E)are subject to inclusion criteria
Q2) Patients who had suffered a heart attack were randomly assigned to two groups,One group received Cardiac Rehab,and the other did not.This is an example of
A)a positive correlation
B)a negative correlation
C)a random clinical trial
D)a cross sectional design
E)fatal research flaw
Q3) Describe three common flaws in health psychology research.
Q4) What are the advantages and disadvantages of longitudinal and cross-sectional research designs as they apply to health psychology research?
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Chapter 13: Epidemiology: What Can Be Learned From the Sars Outbreak in Canada
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Q1) The first identified instance of a medical problem is called the A)host
B)agent
C)index case
D)patient number one
E)point patient
Q2) Describe what an epidemiologist does and using the SARS outbreak describe the illness pattern that was of interest to epidemiologists.
Q3) In the early 1980s,the number of AIDS cases was about 50,increasing to 4900 in three years and reaching 500,000 by 1995.Determining the number of cases today would provide the
A)point prevalence
B)incidence rate
C)vectors
D)lifetime prevalence
E)index rate
Q4) Describe the steps involved in epidemiological research.
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Chapter 14: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Cam
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Q1) Why might a patient decide to use CAM? What are the characteristics of the person most likely to pursue alternative treatments?
Q2) The difference between alternative treatment and complementary treatment is that the latter is
A)used in conjunction with allopathic treatment
B)not allopathic
C)traditional medicine
D)holistic
E)effective
Q3) An interesting finding in the study of CAM users is that the use of alternative treatments is more likely for those patients
A)with a terminal illness
B)who attend support groups
C)who mistrust their physician
D)with low self esteem
E)who readily use over the counter medication
Q4) Using the different outcome categories discuss the research findings addressing the effectiveness of CAM.
Q5) Distinguish between the terms complementary,alternative and holistic therapies.
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Chapter 15: the Sociology of Health and Illness
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Q1) Distinguish between disease and illness from the perspective of a medical sociologist using symbolic interactionism.
Q2) All of the following are rights or duties connected to the sick role except A)the individual is responsible for the condition
B)the individual is exempt from his or her other roles
C)the individual must be trying to get well
D)the individual must be cooperating with the treatment regimen
E)the individual must be seeking competent care
Q3) The idea that health has become a "commodity with a certain value in the marketplace" (Clarke,2000)supports the proponents of
A)conflict theory
B)feminist theory
C)symbolic interactionism
D)sick role theory
E)role strain
Q4) Discuss the three major topics or issues which are the focus of women's health care.
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