Test Bank for Fundamentals of Health Psychology 2e 2nd Edition by
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos; Heather D. Hadjistavropoulos. ISBN-13: 8641
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Fundamentals of Health Psychology
Dedication
Brief Contents
Contents
Preface
From the Publisher
Acknowledgements
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction to Health Psychology
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Health psychology can be considered a discipline-specific descriptor within the field of
________.
a) psychiatry
b) behavioural medicine
c) psychology
d) occupational health
Ans: b
Page: 3
2. Clinical health psychology is ________.
a) a discipline that helps people diagnosed with a disease manage their symptoms
b) a discipline that helps people diagnosed with a disease recover full health
c) a discipline that works to effect change and to promote access within health-care systems
d) a set of practices aimed at preventing disease
Ans: a
Page: 3
3. Occupational health psychology is ________.
a) a discipline that helps people become highly productive in their workplace
b) a discipline that focuses on reducing stress and preventing injuries at work
c) a set of practices aimed at preventing disease transmission in the workplace
d) a discipline that works to effect change and to promote access within health-care systems
Ans: b
Page: 3
4. Community health psychology is ________.
a) a field that focuses on reducing stress and preventing injuries at work
b) a field that focuses on curing illness among of a specific group of people
c) a discipline that works to effect change and to promote access within health-care systems
d) a set of practices aimed at preventing disease
Ans: c
Page: 3
5. The ideas advanced by René Descartes set the stage for the development of health psychology,
because ________.
a) he believed that the body and the soul operate by distinct and independent rules
b) he proposed that the body influences the mind, but not the opposite
, c) he believed that our minds work like machines
d) he proposed that the mind influences the body, but not the opposite
Ans: a
Page: 4
6. Psychological interventions for patients with chronic illnesses can result in ________.
a) substantial medical cost increases
b) minimal medical cost increases
c) minimal medical cost savings
d) substantial medical cost savings
Ans: d
Page: 4
7. A Canadian study involving cancer patients showed that patients who were in structured group
therapy intervention ________.
a) fared worse than patients who received standard psychosocial care
b) fared better than patients who received standard psychosocial care
c) fared as well as patients who received standard psychosocial care
d) fared as poorly as patients who received standard psychosocial care
Ans: b
Page: 4
8. The ancient medical thinkers Hippocrates and Galen believed that ________.
a) mind and body were independent systems without reciprocal influences
b) the body dominated the mind
c) mind and body were part of the same integrated system
d) the mind dominated the body
Ans: c
Page: 4
9. ________ coined the term “psychosomatic.”
a) Johann Christian August Heinroth
b) Ivan Pavlov
c) René Descartes
d) Sigmund Freud
Ans: a
Page: 5
10. Over time, psychodynamic theory and psychoanalysis gradually became less popular in North
America due to ________.
a) lack of interest
b) criticisms about insufficient scientific rigour
c) insufficient funding
11. Psychosomatic medicine initially focused on ________.
a) the importance of biofeedback in the treatment and prevention of physical disease
b) illness behaviour that could be attributed to psychological causes
c) psychological illnesses that could be attributed to physical ailments
d) the independence of psychological factors and disease
Ans: b
Page: 5
12. ________, considered to be the father of modern psychiatry, argued that “actions of the mind
could cause many illnesses.”
a) Johann Christian August Heinroth
b) Franz Alexander
c) Sigmund Freud
d) Benjamin Rush
Ans: d
Pages: 5
13. Different health psychology programs do not ________.
a) require the same competencies from all of their graduates
b) have different research emphases
c) emphasize different sets of competencies in their curriculum
d) have faculty members with strong interests and expertise in health psychology
Ans: a
Page: 8
14. Entry-level health psychologists are not expected to be able to ________.
a) develop health psychology research protocols
b) write a research proposal for a granting agency
c) evaluate biopsychosocial and cognitive assessment tools for evaluating physical illness
d) disregard the bounds/limits of their research competence
Ans: d
Page: 9
15. Health psychologists may work ________.
a) as university teachers
b) as researchers
c) as consultants
d) all the above
16. The biopsychosocial model of disease posits that ________.
a) illness is entirely physical
b) psychological, social, and behavioural factors are linked in the causation and maintenance of
disease
c) questions about illness are answerable objectively and deterministically
d) the physical and the psychosocial are separate
Ans: b
Page: 11
17. Some studies show that inadequate social support in post-surgical patients, when compared to
fully supported patients, is associated with ________.
a) an unchanged amount of pain
b) increased experience of pain
c) higher functional outcomes
d) decreased experience of pain
Ans: b
Page: 11
18. A psychological factor that may contribute to obesity is ________.
a) depression and low-self esteem
b) slower metabolic rate
c) absence of social support
d) inability to afford healthy foods
Ans: a
Page: 13
19. According to some critical evaluations, the health belief model does not account for all the
factors that guide health-relevant behaviours and/or their treatment. For example, ________ are
not accounted for by this model.
a) demographic factors
b) beliefs regarding susceptibility to disease
c) beliefs regarding disease severity
d) economic factors
Ans: d
Page: 14
20. According to empirical data collected to test the social cognitive theory, ________ influence
health-promoting behaviours during recovery from coronary artery surgery.
a) self-efficacy beliefs
b) various types of social support
c) normative beliefs
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