Public Health Psychology
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Public Health Psychology explores the intersection of psychological science and public health, focusing on how psychological theories, research, and interventions can promote health and prevent disease at the population level. This course examines the social, behavioral, and environmental determinants of health, as well as the psychological factors influencing health behaviors, health care utilization, and health disparities. Students will analyze public health campaigns, behavioral change theories, and community-based interventions, developing a critical understanding of how psychological principles can be applied to address issues such as chronic disease prevention, health promotion, and the management of public health crises.
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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) Which of the following is not an element of culture?
A)sex
B)religion
C)ethnicity
D)none of these
Answer: D
Q2) The WHO (World Health Organization)defines health as:
A)a state of physical and social well-being
B)a state of complete physical,mental and social well-being
C)eating and sleeping well,and taking time to relax
D)a transitional life experience
Answer: B
Q3) The frequency of new cases of a disease during a year is known as:
A)mortality
B)morbidity
C)prevalence rate
D)incidence rate
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Cultural Approaches to Health
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Q1) The belief that "like cures like," when small substances of medicinal substances are given to cure symptoms,belongs to:
A)naturopathic medicine
B)homeopathic medicine
C)dietary supplements
D)aromatherapy
Answer: B
Q2) Surveys of Mexican Americans show that highly assimilated Mexican Americans no longer follow traditional and indigenous practices.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Curanderos use three levels of treatment depending on the source of the illness:
A)basic,moderate and complex
B)material,spiritual,and mental
C)mal de ojo,curar,parteras
D)prayer,candles and herbal ointments
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Essential Physiology
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Q1) Given what you know about the respiratory system,what can you do to maintain your health in this area?
A)get your cytotoxicity measured
B)increase your aerobic respiration
C)increase your carbon dioxide level
D)all of the above
Answer: B
Q2) Name three of the major glands in the endocrine system,and indicate the hormones that they secrete.
Answer: pituitary gland (oxytocin) pineal (melatonin) thyroid (thyroxine) parathyroid (parathyroid hormone) thymus (thymosins) pancreas (insulin) adrenal (cortisol and catecholamines) ovaries (estrogen) testes (androgens)
Q3) Menopause historically meant that a woman would be participating in hormone replacement therapy.In 2003,the Women's Health Initiative study indicated that this treatment should be halted due to the fact that women receiving the drug were found to have a higher risk for certain cancers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Stress Across Cultures
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Q1) 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
Q2) In a longitudinal study of over 2,000 adults,it was found that the stress-responses to the 9/11 attacks predicted increased heart problems even three years after the attacks (Holman et al.,2008).
A)True
B)False
Q3) Freedman (1975)found that overcrowding causes negative moods for:
A)only women
B)both men and women
C)it does not affect children
D)only men
Q4) There are six main dimensions of stress.Please list these dimensions,and give a short definition as to what they entail.
Q5) According to the research discussed in the textbook,what are some ways that men and women might differ in how they respond to stress?
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Chapter 5: Coping and Social Support
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Q1) 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.
Q2) _____ is the relatively stable tendency of an individual to believe one's life is under one's own control.
A)Optimism
B)Hardiness
C)Conscientiousness
D)Mastery
Q3) If you were a therapist working with a woman who wants to learn how to cope with stress in her life due to care-giving challenges,what kind of approaches would you introduce to her as options for her treatment? Discuss the various approaches that you learned about in the textbook.
Q4) Compare and contrast received support and perceived support.Give some examples of how these two types of support can affect the health outcome of an individual.
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Chapter 6: Models of Behavior Change
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Q1) Some models of health behavior change are automatically culturally sensitive,but most theories are designed to apply to any cultural group.In order for an intervention to be culturally sensitive,one of the things psychologists should be close attention to is the symbols and language used in the intervention.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) One of the most important priorities of the Healthy People 2010 Program is to:
A)decrease substance abuse
B)improve food safety
C)promote responsible sexual behavior
D)increase physical activity
Q4) What are some of the biological factors that determine health behaviors?
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Chapter 7: Health Behaviors: Eating, Physical Activity, Smoking
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Q1) What are the biological,psychological,and sociological reasons people smoke?
Q2) Which of the following statements about culture and eating disorders is NOT true?
A)most body image research has focused on European Americans
B)cultures vary in ideal body shape perceptions
C)eating disorders are primarily a European-American problem
D)research has found no difference between Asian and European American women
Q3) Physical activity reduces _____ and increases _____.
A)anxiety; self-esteem
B)self-esteem; anxiety
C)illnesses; physician visits
D)bulimia; positive social change for elderly
Q4) What are two eating disorders,and what are their characteristics?
Q5) The 2008 version of the nutritional guidelines for Americans,called MyPyramid,has key changes in:
A)increasing protein such as eggs in your diet
B)decreasing whole grains
C)increasing physical activity
D)adding more meat to the diet
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Chapter 8: Factors Surrounding Illness
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Q1) Ulrich,Simons and Miles (2003)found that patient stress was lowest during blood draws when:
A)television was played in the waiting rooms.
B)classical or quiet music is played
C)videotapes of nature scenes were playing
D)newer magazines are available for patients to read
Q2) Some people have a much better understanding of how their bodies function and feel.They often feel greater discomfort due to their extra-sensitively and being high in:
A)private body consciousness
B)hypochondria
C)behavioral involvement
D)critical self awareness
Q3) Recent work suggests that treatment adherence can be increased by:
A)focusing on the cultural values of the provider
B)not charging the patient until the follow up appointments are completed
C)having the physician pay closer attention to the patient after the diagnosis with more monitoring and follow-ups
D)rapidly changing the patients daily routine
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Chapter 9: Pain
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Q1) Pain experienced with disease,such as cancer,is classified as:
A)acute
B)chronic malignant
C)chronic sensory
D)acute malignant
Q2) Stress-induced analgesia can be described by this example:
A)runner's high
B)stress fracture in foot from running
C)stress experienced by air traffic controllers
D)fibromyalgia
Q3) Nociception is often accompanied by cognitive,behavioral and affective states. A)True
B)False
Q4) Physiological measures such as electroencephalography,electromyography (EMG)and skin conductance are often used to assess pain,and are found to be very helpful in measuring pain.
A)True
B)False
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) Important cultural differences exist in how:
A)the dead are treated
B)patients cope with death
C)caregivers cope with death
D)all of the above are true
Q2) A form of treatment aimed at alleviating symptoms without necessarily affecting the cause is:
A)euthanasia
B)palliative care
C)patient centered care
D)life support
Q3) Women coping with an illness who benefit the most from educational groups,and peer discussion groups are those who lack support from:
A)their children
B)their friends
C)partners or doctors
D)community
Q4) How does religion play a role in coping with chronic illnesses?
Q5) 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) An individual classified as HIV/symptomatic requires the presence of what symptoms?
Q2) Schutte,Valerio and Carrilo (1996)examined the relationship between optimism and socioeconomic status (SES),between European and Mexican Americans and found:
A)significant correlations between optimism and SES for both groups
B)no correlations between optimism and SES for both groups
C)significant correlations between optimism and SES for Latinos but not for European Americans
D)significant correlations between optimism and SES for European Americans but not for Latinos
Q3) The most common ethnic group to be diagnosed with AIDS in American is:
A)Chinese American
B)African American
C)Native American
D)Mexican American
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) What do studies about the variable of ethnicity and AIDS tell us?
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Chapter 12: Culture and Cancer
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Q1) Cancer-causing substances are referred to as:
A)carcinogens
B)malignancies
C)mutations
D)neoplasms
Q2) Not all cells with abnormal cell growth are cancerous.The type of uncontrollable cell growth that destroys healthy tissue is referred to as:
A)neoplasmic
B)malignant
C)benign
D)mutant
Q3) _____ believe that cancer is punishment for one's actions or that of a family member and that one must wear the pain to protect other members of one's communities.
A)African Americans
B)Laotians
C)Native Americans
D)Latinos
Q4) What are the four main types of cancer,and where are they located?
Q5) How does immunotherapy activate the body's own immune system to fight cancer?
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Chapter 13: Culture and Cardiovascular Disease
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Q1) The higher risk for heart attacks shown by South Asians is attributed in part to a higher prevalence of diabetes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Cardiac bypass surgery:
A)puts a stent in the heart to redirect blood flow
B)a thin flexible tube is inserted through an artery
C)takes a blood vessel from elsewhere in the body,and use it to redirect blood flow around a severely blocked artery
D)consists of a surgical procedure where the blocked artery is cleaned out by laser surgery
Q3) What is the relationship between stress and increased cardiovascular disease?
Q4) If Gwenn is a survivor of a heart attack,she is depressed,and therefore is at risk of:
A)increased mortality in the 6-month period after the first heart attack
B)increased risk of needing angioplasty
C)having a reduction in her LDL levels
D)nothing more,being depressed does not indicate that she is at risk of anything
Q5) What physiological factors predict the incidence of cardiovascular disease?
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Chapter 14: The Future of Health Psychology
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Q1) How does the shortage of information on culture affect health psychology research?
Q2) Health psychology has demonstrated the ability to designate diverse ethnic groups under specific categories that are able to give recognition to inherent differences.
A)True
B)False
Q3) For cancer and coronary heart disease,_____ is one of the biggest predictors of incidence.
A)weight
B)gender
C)age
D)ethnicity
Q4) A plan developed by Director Zerhouni,together with more than 300 scientists,that sketches out 28 cross-institutional projects especially designed to track multifaceted issues such as obesity is called:
A)the National Electronic Clinical Trials and Research
B)mind-body medicine
C)the NIH Roadmap
D)the national Institute of Aging
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