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Test Bank

Multiple Choice

• Lupe examines how social support may buffer the negative effects of stigma on the

well-being of HIV+ gay men of color. Lupe is MOST likely a ______ psychologist.

• medical
• clinical
• health
• social

Ans: C

Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe how psychological factors influence health, pain, disease, and health care utilization.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Understanding Health Psychology

Difficulty Level: Medium

• A team of campus counselors creates a campaign called “More Sleep, More Hugs” to

promote student wellness. Is the campaign’s title a good one, based on information provided in the text?

• No. Hugs spread germs.
• No. Sleep leads to lethargy and depression.
• Meh. Sleep and hugs can’t hurt, but they don’t really do much for health, either.
• Yes. Sleep and social support are both positively associated with health.

Ans: D

Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe how psychological factors influence health, pain, disease, and health care utilization.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Impact on Behavior and Physiology

Difficulty Level: Hard

• Hostility and optimism have ______ effects on health.
• no
• identical
• similar
• opposite

Ans: D

Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe how psychological factors influence health, pain, disease, and health care utilization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Impact on Behavior and Physiology

Difficulty Level: Medium 1 / 4

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• A woman’s anxiety or fear regarding childbirth is ______ correlated with the length of

labor.

• inversely
• not
• positively
• perfectly

Ans: C

Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe how psychological factors influence health, pain, disease, and health care utilization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Impact on Pain and Disease

Difficulty Level: Hard

• Minimizing the damage caused by a disease is to detecting a disease at an early

stage as ______ prevention is to ______ prevention.

• tertiary; secondary
• primary; secondary
• tertiary; primary
• secondary; tertiary

Ans: A

Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe how psychological factors influence health, pain, disease, and health care utilization.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Impact on Health Care Utilization

Difficulty Level: Hard

• ______ prevention is illustrated by actions such as taking medicine to reduce the

development of symptoms of AIDS once infected with HIV; engaging in regular physical therapy to recover from an injury; and following diet recommendations following a heart attack.

• Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
• Behavioral

Ans: C

Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe how psychological factors influence health, pain, disease, and health care utilization.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Impact on Health Care Utilization

Difficulty Level: Hard

• Roughly speaking, the field of health psychology is BEST described as developing

during the ______.

• 1960s
• early 1970s 2 / 4

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• mid- to late 1970s
• mid-1980s

Ans: C

Learning Objective: 1-2: Summarize the history of the field of health psychology.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The History of Health Psychology

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Which historical view is MOST consistent with the idea that both the mind and the

body influence health?

• Hippocrates’ view that health depends on an equilibrium.
• Descartes’ view that disease results from the breakdown of the body’s machine.
• Newton’s demonstration of gravitational pull.
• Pasteur’s work in the role of microorganisms in causing disease.

Ans: A

Learning Objective: 1-2: Summarize the history of the field of health psychology.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Early Views on the Mind–Body Connection

Difficulty Level: Medium

• In the view of the textbook’s author, the biomedical model of health is BEST

described as ______.

• not useful
• incomplete
• too subjective
• overly broad

Ans: B

Learning Objective: 1-2: Summarize the history of the field of health psychology.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Failure of the Biomedical Model

Difficulty Level: Hard

• The mind and body are seen as inherently connected in ______.
• the biomedical model of health, but not the biopsychosocial model
• the biopsychosocial model of health, but not the biomedical model
• neither the biomedical nor the biopsychosocial model of health
• both the biomedical and the biopsychosocial models of health

Ans: B

Learning Objective: 1-2: Summarize the history of the field of health psychology.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Creation of the Biopsychosocial Model

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Interactions between health care professionals and their clients may be influenced

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• biological; biomedical
• medical; biomedical
• psychological; biopsychosocial
• social; biopsychosocial

Ans: D

Learning Objective: 1-2: Summarize the history of the field of health psychology.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Creation of the Biopsychosocial Model

Difficulty Level: Medium

• A team of faculty and counselors at a large high school introduces a program of

interventions across the curriculum aimed at encouraging such feelings as joy, happiness, hopefulness, and pride among the adolescent student body. The program appears strongly influenced by a new field called ______ psychology.

• positive
• affirmative
• personality
• preventive

Ans: A

Learning Objective: 1-3: Explain factors leading to the development of health psychology.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: A Change in the Meaning of Health

Difficulty Level: Medium

• The textbook notes that nearly two-thirds of the deaths of those under 80 in the

United States reflect the top 5 causes of death. Of these deaths, about one in ______ could be prevented by changes in people’s behavior.

• five
• four
• three
• two

Ans: C

Learning Objective: 1-3: Explain factors leading to the development of health psychology.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: An Increase in Chronic Conditions

Difficulty Level: Medium

• A particular state implemented a comprehensive smoking cessation program with

the money it received in a settlement with large tobacco companies. With respect to such chronic conditions as lung cancer and emphysema, the program is an example of ______ prevention.

• primary
• secondary
• tertiary
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