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CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTH
True/False Statements
- Advances in medical treatment were responsible for a sharp decrease
in infectious diseases at the turn of the 20 th century.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Illness Today and in the Past
- Today, accidental injury is the leading cause of death in children and
adolescents in Canada.
Answer: True
Section Reference: Illness Today and in the Past
- During the Middle Ages, the influence of the Church resulted in many
major advancements in medical knowledge.
Answer: False
Section Reference: The Middle Ages
- “Risk factors” are those biological or behavioral characteristics that are
known to cause a disease.
Answer: False
Section Reference: “The Person” in Health and Illness
- In the past, practitioners of psychosomatic medicine generally used a
psychoanalytic model to explain a physical symptom.
Answer: True
Section Reference: How the Role of Psychology Emerged
- One of the goals of health psychology is to have an effect on public
policy.
Answer: True
Section Reference: How the Role of Psychology Emerged
- The biopsychosocial model of health and illness is actually an extension
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Answer: True
Section Reference: The Biopsychosocial Perspective
- The "systems" approach assumes simple systems are embedded
within complex systems.
Answer: True
Section Reference: The Biopsychosocial Perspective
- Although sociocultural research has found differences in health beliefs
across cultures, disease patterns themselves do not differ.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Health and Psychology Across Cultures)
- Quasi‑experimental designs allow us to make causal conclusions from
existing groups.
Answer: False
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Test bank for Sarafino Health Psychology, Canadian Edition.Matching
Match one of the following with descriptions given in questions 11 to 15.
- Hippocrates
- Plato
- Galen
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- Descartes
- From his work, which included dissection, this second century
physician felt that pathologies could be localized in parts of the body.
Answer: c
Section Reference: Ancient Greece and Rome
- An Italian philosopher, he saw the mind and body as an interrelated unit.
Answer: d
Section Reference: The Middle Ages
- He was among the Greek philosophers to propose that the mind and body
are separate entities.
Answer: b
Section Reference: Ancient Greece and Rome
- Called "the father of medicine," his humoral theory for the origin of
disease was influential for centuries.
Answer: a
Section Reference: Ancient Greece and Rome
- He described in mechanical terms the functioning of the body's actions
and sensations such as pain.
Answer: e
Section Reference: The Renaissance and After
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Test bank for Sarafino Health Psychology, Canadian Edition.Match the following with descriptions given in questions 16 through 20
- epidemiology
- public health
- medical sociology
- medical anthropology
- health psychology
- Provides direct service to patients in the management of their illnesses
or engages in research and teaching.
Answer: e
Section Reference: Health Psychology: The Profession
- Concerned with the incidence and prevalence of illnesses.
Answer: a
Section Reference: Related Fields
- Organizes health education or provides community health services.
Answer: b
Section Reference: Related Fields
- May conduct studies of health care services and how they are organized.
Answer: c
Section Reference: Related Fields
- May conduct studies on the medical practices in different cultures.
Answer: d
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