Stress and Coping Exam Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the psychological and physiological aspects of stress, examining how individuals perceive, experience, and respond to stressful situations. Students will learn about major theories of stress, the impact of chronic and acute stress on health and well-being, and the role of cognitive appraisal in the stress process. Various coping mechanisms such as problem-focused and emotion-focused strategies will be analyzed, along with factors influencing coping effectiveness, including personality, social support, and cultural context. The course integrates current research and practical interventions for managing stress, equipping students with evidence-based techniques to promote resilience and adaptive functioning in personal and professional life.
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Health Psychology 9th Edition by Shelley E Taylor
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Chapter 1: What Is Health Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is emphasized by the biopsychosocial model?
A)Psychological conflict is sufficient to produce certain disorders.
B)Certain biological disorders can be related on a consistent basis to specific personality types.
C)Certain disorders are best treated medically; however, other disorders are best treated using psychotherapy.
D)Health is achieved by being attentive to biological, psychological, and social needs.
Answer: D
Q2) The main function of a physical therapist is to:
A)provide psycho-educational counselling to patients who suffer from chronic illnesses.
B)assess where patients need to go after discharge based on their psychosocial needs.
C)conduct dietary interventions for patients suffering from chronic illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
D)support patients in regaining the use of bodily functions that may have been compromised by illness.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Systems of the Body
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Q1) Which of the following is commonly known as the disease of lifestyle?
A)Dementia
B)Type II diabetes
C)Type I diabetes
D)Polio
Answer: B
Q2) An adult's body approximately contains _____ liters of blood.
A)9
B)7
C)3
D)5
Answer: D
Q3) Regulation of the autonomic nervous system occurs via the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Health Behaviors
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Q1) The use of Antabuse in the treatment of alcoholism involves having the client sip his or her favorite drink while ingesting Antabuse.After several pairings, alcohol becomes associated with the Antabuse and elicits a(n) _____.
A)conditioned response
B)conditioned stimulus
C)unconditioned response
D)unconditioned stimulus
Answer: A
Q2) Focusing health promotions on people who are at-risk is more beneficial because:
A)it is obvious that people who are not at risk are more likely to stay healthy.
B)it is easier to prevent health problems among those who are not at risk.
C)it helps to identify other factors that may increase risks.
D)it helps to gradually reduce their risks.
Answer: C
Q3) The first and most common strategy of primary prevention is to get people to alter their problematic health behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Health-Promoting Behaviors
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Q1) The health benefits of regular exercise include:
A)increased resting heart rate.
B)reduced HDL.
C)increased metabolic syndrome.
D)reduced risk of some cancers.
Q2) _____ is an effective way to alter behavior related to diet and exercise.
A)Sensitization
B)Social engineering
C)Social networking
D)Private education
Q3) _____ is a symptom of psychopathology commonly found among long sleepers.
A)Insomnia
B)Chronic worrying
C)Sleep deprivation
D)Snoring
Q4) Imagine you are designing a program to be administered through the county health department designed to increase the frequency of mammograms among community residents.What kind of techniques would you adopt to increase screening through mammography?
Q5) Explain the physical and psychological benefits of exercise.
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Chapter 5: Health-Compromising Behaviors
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Q1) Mass media has dramatically changed attitudes toward smoking because it:
A)provides information to smokers about health effects, although it has little effect on their habit.
B)promotes smoking as a habit adopted by people from high-class societies.
C)promotes antismoking attitudes which seem to have a great impact on the society.
D)provides information about health habits that discourage nonsmokers from beginning smoking.
Q2) _____ is secreted by fat cells that signal the neurons of the hypothalamus to determine if the body has sufficient stores of fat.
A)Dopamine
B)Collagen
C)Leptin
D)Ghrelin
Q3) Individuals who are obese have a body mass index (BMI) of _____.
A)over 15
B)over 20
C)over 25
D)over 30
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Chapter 6: Stress
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Q1) Allostatic load refers to the physiological costs of chronic exposure to the physiological changes that result from repeated or chronic stress.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Chronic strain is strongly related to depression.
A)True
B)False
Q3) African American men are more likely to die from a heart attack than white men.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The correct order of the pathways by which stress affects health is _____.
A)health care, psychosocial resources, health behaviors, and physiology
B)psychosocial resources, health behaviors, physiology, and health care
C)health behaviors, physiology, health care, and psychosocial resources
D)physiology, health behaviors, psychosocial resources, and health care
Q5) Recent studies have suggested that psychobiological reactivity to stress is an important factor in determining the likelihood that stress will contribute to illness.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Coping, Resilience, and Social Support
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Q1) Explain coping and the relationship between personality and coping.
Q2) People with strong spiritual beliefs have greater life satisfaction and a slower course of illness.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When optimists' expectations are not met or when they face resistance in pursuing their goals, they are likely to experience:
A)long-term physical conditions.
B)short-term psychological problems.
C)long-term psychological problems.
D)short-term physiological conditions.
Q4) Which of the following is a reason for people to use emotional approach coping?
A)It is more useful in the long-term than in coping with daily life stressors.
B)It leads people to affirm important aspects of their identity.
C)It provokes the stress regulatory system.
D)It is especially beneficial for men.
Q5) Emotional reactions including anger and depression are part of the coping process.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Using Health Services
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Q1) The herpes disease is best characterized by the _____ model of illness.
A)acute
B)chronic
C)cyclic
D)terminal
Q2) Accelerated heartbeat and fatigue are typical physiological changes related to
A)stress
B)mood
C)situational factors
D)attentional differences
Q3) A person's belief that an illness can be managed or cured through appropriate actions and treatments is termed as _____.
A)cause
B)identity
C)consequence
D)control
Q4) Describe the four stages of delay behavior.What are the likely causes of delay?
Q5) Explain the factors that facilitate in recognizing health related symptoms.
Q6) Briefly explain the categories of people who use health services.
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Chapter 9: Patients, Providers, and Treatments
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Q1) _____ meditation teaches people to strive for a state of mind marked by awareness, focus on the present moment, and acceptance and acknowledgement without becoming distracted or distressed.
A)Heart rhythm
B)Guided visualization
C)Mindfulness
D)Transcendental
Q2) Patients who are seeking treatment for psychological disorders usually evoke:
A)positive thoughts about their environment.
B)equally serious physical symptoms.
C)positive reactions from physicians.
D)negative reactions from physicians.
Q3) Your brother calls to inform you that his nine-year-old son is being hospitalized due to a fracture.What advice would you give your brother to minimize any adverse reactions that your nephew might experience while being hospitalized?
Q4) Patient A is preoperative.If the roommate is post-operative, patient A is likely to have better pre-and post-operative adjustment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Extension: Patients, Providers, and Treatments
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Q1) Which of the following is a component of burnout?
A)Optimism
B)Energy
C)Cynicism
D)High efficacy
Q2) Which of the following is an effective way of improving adherence to a treatment?
A)Developing a checklist only for the patients to follow
B)Restricting pharmacists from providing counseling along with prescription medication
C)Making adult literacy a national priority
D)Writing prescriptions on paper
Q3) Acupuncture usually triggers the release of _____.
A)oxytocin
B)dopamine
C)endorphins
D)ghrelin
Q4) Explain the placebo as a methodological tool.
Q5) Briefly explain patients' contributions to faulty communication.
Q6) What does the setting imply in the nature of patient-provider communication?
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Chapter 10: The Management of Pain and Discomfort
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Q1) Typically, catastrophic thinking reduces the pain experience.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements is a characteristic of acute pain?
A)Unlike chronic pain, acute pain usually goes on for 6 months or more.
B)Acute pain is usually short in duration compared to chronic pain.
C)Acute pain usually presents psychological profiles that are identical to chronic pain.
D)Unlike chronic pain, acute pain is usually unresponsive to treatment.
Q3) Which of the following statements best describes recurrent acute pain?
A)The pain is constant and varies in severity, typically persists for 6 months or longer, and is relatively unresponsive to treatment.
B)The pain typically goes on for 6 months or less and disappears when the tissue damage is repaired.
C)It involves constant pain that increases in severity over time, due to a malignant condition, and typically lasts longer than 6 months.
D)It involves intermittent episodes of pain that are acute in character but chronic inasmuch as the condition repeats for more than 6 months.
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Chapter 11: Management of Chronic Illness
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Q1) Medical measures are weakly related to patients' or relatives' assessments of quality of life.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Internet is a good source of information about skills for coping with common illness-related problems.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Analyses of the effectiveness of coping strategies in managing the stress associated with chronic illness conclude that:
A)the coping strategies used by chronically ill patients are significantly different from the strategies observed in healthy samples.
B)avoidant coping is associated with reduced psychological distress and better psychological adjustment.
C)confrontative coping is associated with better adjustment than the use of multiple coping strategies.
D)active coping is more consistently associated with good adjustment.
Q4) How are patients' beliefs about chronic illness related to adjustment?
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Chapter 12: Psychological Issues in Advancing and Terminal Illness
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Q1) In the age group of 15 to 24, the homicide rate among black males is nearly _____ times that of young white males.
A)three
B)six
C)seven
D)nine
Q2) The major cause of death in youths aged 15 to 24 is unintentional injury.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following factors predicts mortality in the elderly age group?
A)Close family relationships
B)Reduced terminal illness
C)Strong mental health
D)Reduced life satisfaction
Q4) According to Kübler-Ross, the dying patient who asks "why me?" is experiencing:
A)anxiety.
B)bargaining.
C)denial.
D)anger.
Q5) Describe Kübler-Ross's theory of dying.Evaluate the usefulness of her theory.
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Chapter 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Type Ii
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Q1) Research suggests that expressing anger is more reliably associated with cardiovascular reactivity than the state of anger.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following best describes unmitigated communion?
A)It is a focus on the self.
B)It is a focus on social unity.
C)It is an extreme focus on others.
D)It is an extreme focus on oneself.
Q3) Gerard is obese around the waist.He has high blood pressure and low levels of good cholesterol.These are symptomatic of:
A)stroke.
B)hypertension.
C)multiple sclerosis.
D)metabolic syndrome.
Q4) Mild hypertension is defined by a diastolic pressure consistently between 105 and 119.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Psychoneuroimmunology and Immune-Related Disorders
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Q1) The tendency to seek social support and the perception that one had good emotional support were associated with _____ suggesting buffering of stress responses.
A)low NK cell activity
B)high NK cell activity
C)high T cell activity
D)low T cell activity.
Q2) Susan has breast cancer.She is anxious and depressed.Although she receives a lot of help from her family and friends, she is unable to manage her treatment regime.She is scared of losing the organ and is worried about the reoccurrence of the cancer and pain.She is also worried that her cancer might be fatal.Her oncologist is like to recommend her therapy that follows the _____ format.
A)crisis intervention
B)intensive psychotherapy
C)self-help
D)psychoanalysis
Q3) How do psychosocial factors influence the initiation and course of cancer?
Q4) Studies have found impaired immune functioning among bereaved individuals.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Health Psychology: Challenges for the Future
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Q1) The use of new technologies in medical care may be frightening for some people.A health psychologist can assist such patients and their families by:
A)testifying before government committees on the hazards of technology.
B)teaching control-enhancing techniques to help reduce fear.
C)advising the patient's physician on ethical issues.
D)developing complex decision making tools.
Q2) _____ is a subfield within psychology that focuses heavily on the biology and neurological aspects of health psychology.
A)Social psychology
B)Clinical psychology
C)Physiological psychology
D)Developmental psychology
Q3) Sara, a health psychologist, uses technology effectively to implement behavioral interventions.To ensure a patient with a poor memory to adhere to the medicine intake schedule strictly, she will most likely:
A)send electronic reminders to take medications at the appropriate time.
B)develop a website with complete information about the medicines.
C)visit the patient every day and check if medicines have been taken on time.
D)print the schedule from her computer and mail it to the customer's home.
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