Type:
Test Bank
Resource:
Health Psychology A Cultural Approach
Edition:
3rd Edition
Author(s):
Reagan A. R. Gurung
Chapter One—Health Psychology: Setting the Stage MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Health psychologists are most likely to define health as: a. the absence of disease. b. spiritual balance. c. mental, physical, spiritual, and psychological well-being. d. a pulse rate of 120/50 and a heart rate of 55 beats per minute. ANS: C
REF: WHAT IS HEALTH?
2. Every day, each of our behaviors can influence our health. Given the many components of being healthy, health is best conceptualized as: a. one-dimensional c. a continuum b. absolute d. unstable ANS: C
REF: WHAT IS HEALTH?
3. 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 ANS: B
REF: WHAT IS HEALTH?
4. Which of the following is FALSE? a. Perceptions of how well-off your family is have been found to influence health. b. SES is related to morbidity, but not to mortality. c. SES is related to a higher occurrence of most chronic and infectious disorders. d. Neighborhood SES has been associated with poorer health practices. ANS: B
REF: CONTEXT AND LEVEL OF ANALYSIS
5. Culture is best defined as: a. a set of beliefs shared by a group b. race and ethnicity c. religion, family values, and race d. the values of our parents and family members ANS: A
REF: WHY IS CULTURE IMPORTANT?
6. Members of different cultures use different definitions of health, which in turn vary from place to place. This highlights the importance of studying the general concept of: a. religion c. geography b. context d. psychology ANS: B
REF: CONTEXT LEVEL OF ANALYSIS
7. Which of these circumstances is related to a higher occurrence of most chronic and infectious disorders?
a. sex b. socioeconomic status ANS: B
c. race d. ethnicity
REF: CONTEXT LEVEL OF ANALYSIS
8. The Greek physician best known for dissections and providing us with anatomy data was: a. Plato c. Hippocrates b. Galen d. Aginostophenes ANS: B
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
9. Which of the following is the primary focus of health psychology? a. health promotion and maintenance and preventing and treating illness b. understanding the etiology of health and illness c. revising the health care system d. finding the cure for disease like HIV and cancer ANS: A
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
10. _______ refers to the number of cases of a disease that exist at some given point in time. _____ a. Morbidity c. Epidemiology b. Mortality d. Etiology ANS: A
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
11. Which of the following is FAlSE?. a. Death rates of African Americans are significantly higher than those of Americans overall. b. American Indians have a suicide rate that is higher than the national average. c. Health care and disease incidence vary significantly across cultural groups. d. Most health disparities are caused by factors related to sex rather than cultural factors. ANS: D
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: SETTING THE STAGE: (INTRO)
12. In studying about cultural differences in health, we should remember that: a. in-group differences and between-group differences both occur. b. in-group differences are unlikely to occur because of shared belief systems.. c. racial differences outweigh all other cultural differences. d. most cultural differences are insignificant from a global level. ANS: A
REF: SOME IMPORTANT WARNINGS
13. The major approach used by health psychologists is the: a. biomedical model c. biosocial model b. psychosocial model d. biopsychosocial model ANS: D
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
14. Based on oral traditions and pictoral evidence from early civilizations,, history suggests that our ancestors considered the mind and body to: a. be one c. be connected b. be separate d. part of the spirit ANS: A
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
15. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has the following understanding of health: a. Eat and drink an equal amounts of hot and cold qualities.
b. the way you live your life should have more cold qualities because they include more vegetables. c. Have more yin than yang. d. Have more yang than yin. ANS: A
REF: CROSS-CULTURAL DEFINITIONS OF HEALTH
16. The father of Western medicine is: a. Galen b. Socrates ANS: D
c. Plato d. Hippocrates
REF: : HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
17. The first psychologist to link illness with psychological causes is: a. Freud c. Alexander b. Dunbar d. Wundt ANS: A
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
18. Helen Dunbar and Franz Alexander were instrumental in establishing the earliest organization to study psychological determinants on health. It is called: a. Health Psychology c. Psychosomatic Medicine b. Society for Behavioral Medicine d. American Psychosomatic Association ANS: C
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
19. The study of the frequency, distribution, and causes of different disease is known as: a. epidemiology c. medical anthropology b. medical sociology d. biopsychometrics ANS: A
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
20. _______ are most likely to consider health and medical care within the context of cultural systems. a. Health psychologists c. Cultural anthropologists b. Medical anthropologists d. Cultural psychologists ANS: B
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
21. Health psychology is best described as an interdisciplinary subdiscipline of psychology primarily focused on: a. Studying the frequency, distribution, and causes of different diseases. b. promoting and maintain health and preventing and treating illness. c. discovering the biological causes of illness. d. the study of happiness and well-being. ANS: B
REF: WHAT IS HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY?
22. The multidisciplinary organization formed to focus on the influences of hehavior on health and well-being is: a. Health Psychology Association c. Psychosomatic Medicine b. Society of Behavioral Medicine d. American Psychological Association ANS: B
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY’S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
23. 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 ANS: B
REF: CONTEXT AND LEVELS OF ANALYSIS
24. The Purnell Model is a model of: a. stress and coping. b. adherence. ANS: D
c. cultural impact d. attitudes
c. behavior change. d. cultural competence.
REF: ADVANCING CULTURAL COMPETENCE
25. The best indicator of an individual’s health is the extent to which they: a. smoke tobacco. c. follow a structured religion. b. drink alcoholic beverages. d. follow general healthy behaviors. ANS: D
REF: WHAT IS HEALTH?
26. This Harvard psychologist wrote the first book in psychology. _________was also one of the earliest psychologists to write about spirituality, health, and psychology: a. Freud c. Wundt b. James d. Dunbar ANS: B
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY’S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL
27. One of the strongest cultural determinants of health beliefs and behaviors (e. g. eating) is: a. sex c. gender b. ethnicity d. religion ANS: D
REF: WHY IS CULTURE IMPORTANT?
28. One of the most important aspects of culture is socioeconomic status (SES). SES is commonly measured by: a. family income, parental education and occupational status b. an individual’s age, sex, and family size c. age, income and place of residence d. social and economic skills, and level of education ANS: A
REF: CONTEXT AND LEVEL OF ANALYSIS
29. A(n) ____________ measures the strength of the relation between two variables. a. incidence rate c. retrospective study b. prevalence rate d. correlation coefficient ANS: D
REF: A RESEARCH PRIMER
30. Which is the strongest correlation listed? a. .34 b. .56 ANS: D
c. -.23 d. -.76
REF: A RESEARCH PRIMER
31. Experiments are powerful and help determine cause because the experimenter manipulates a variable between groups holding other factors constant. This manipulated variable is the: