Health Psychology An Introduction to Behavior and Health 9th Edition By Linda Brannon, Jess Feist, John Updegraff (Test Bank)
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Health Psychology An Introduction to Behavior and Health, 9e Linda Brannon, Jess Feist, John Updegraff (Test Bank)
Health Psychology An Introduction to Behavior and Health, 9e Linda Brannon, Jess Feist, John Updegraff (Test Bank)
(Health Psychology An Introduction to Behavior and Health, 9e Linda Brannon, Jess Feist, John
Updegraff)
(Test Bank, Correct Answer are marked with*)
Chapter 1
1. As a health psychologist, Angela Bryan develops interventions to change health behaviors
that are affected by _______ factors.
a. psychological
b. sociological
c. biological
*d. all these
2. Health psychologist Angela Bryan has begun to investigate genetic influences on
*a. people’s responses to interventions with physical activity.
b. people’s tendencies to engage in risky sexual behaviors.
c. people’s likelihood to engage in safer sexual behaviors.
d. people’s responses to interventions with sexual activity.
3. Based on the real-world profile of Angela Bryan, how should health psychologists
evaluate how effective their interventions are in changing health behaviors?
a. By anecdotal feedback from patients they have treated
b. By patients’ responses to self-reporting questionnaires
*c. By applying valid and reliable research methodologies
d. By interdisciplinary partners’ views of patient progress
4. The field of health psychology developed
a. to increase life expectancy, which was much shorter then.
*b. to address challenges in medical care, which was changing.
c. to try to find cures for infectious diseases that caused deaths.
d. to change medicine’s focus from biological to psychosomatic.
5. One hundred years ago, the majority of American deaths were due to
a. behavioral factors.
b. illness from viruses.
*c. disease from bacteria.
d. injuries from accidents.
6. Diseases that killed most people a century ago were more often from
*a. tainted foods than unhealthy habits.
, b. unsafe drinking water than bad foods.
c. others who were ill than food or water.
d. not taking available medicine prescribed.
7. What is true about the time frames of diseases 100 years ago in the United States?
a. Illnesses lasted longer because fewer treatments existed then.
b. Illnesses were shorter because sick people got well in weeks.
c. Illnesses were shorter because sick people died within weeks.
*d. Illnesses lasted for shorter times as results of all these causes.
8. People’s beliefs about health and illness may be incorrect. Which of these common beliefs is
true?
a. The United States ranks in the top five nations in the world in terms of life
expectancy.
b. The 30-year increase in life expectancy in the United States during the 20th
century was due primarily to improved medical care.
c. Infectious and chronic diseases have both decreased in the United States
today.
*d. None of these is true.
9. How has life expectancy in the U.S. changed from a century ago to today?
*a. It has risen to be more than 65% longer.
b. It has increased to almost 35% longer.
c. It has increased, but not significantly.
d. It has exceeded 100 years of age.
10. Which of these most correctly describes changes in U.S. health and health care over
the past century or so?
a. Preventing and treating infectious diseases have decreased chronic diseases
equally.
b. Preventing and treating infectious diseases have reduced chronic disease, but
not as much.
*c. Preventing and treating infectious diseases have enabled predomination of
chronic diseases.
d. Preventing and treating infectious diseases have had no effect at all upon
chronic diseases.
11. Chronic diseases
, *a. develop and persist over a period of time.
b. are due to infectious agents such as bacteria or viruses.
c. are not as common today as during the 19th century.
d. include influenza and pneumonia.
12. _________ diseases are a class of diseases that include heart disease, cancer, and
stroke.
a. Infectious
*b. Chronic
c. Unintentional
d. Cardiovascular
13. In 1900, most deaths in the United States were caused by ____, whereas today most
are due to ____.
a. pneumonia. . . cancer
b. chronic diseases. . . cancer
*c. infectious diseases. . . chronic diseases
d. cancer. . . alcohol-related causes
14. During the first few years of the 21st century, deaths from some chronic diseases in
the United States
a. began to rise more rapidly than during the previous 50 years.
*b. began to decrease while deaths not due to lifestyles began to increase.
c. began to increase while deaths not due to lifestyles began to decrease.
d. were replaced by acute diseases as the leading cause of death.
15. In America today, what is a fact about chronic diseases?
*a. They cause a comparable percentage of deaths now as infectious diseases
caused in the past.
b. They cause the majority of deaths now, but a lower percentage than infectious
diseases once did.
c. They cause a comparable percentage of deaths now to the percentage that
infectious diseases cause now.
d. They cause a very low percentage of actual deaths, but many people are living
with them now.
, 16. How do the numbers of Americans dying each year from chronic diseases compare
to the numbers of Americans living with chronic diseases each year?
a. About 65 times as many people die from them as live with them every year.
*b. About 65 times as many people live with them as die from them every year.
c. About the same number of people live with them as die from them in a year.
d. About 10 times as many people live with them as die from them every year.
17. The leading cause of death in the United States
a. is due to acute, infectious disease.
b. is due to risky sexual behaviors.
c. has shifted from cardiovascular disease to cancer.
*d. has shifted from acute to chronic diseases.
18. Compared to historically, Americans today have
a. more control over their health, and most people exert that control.
b. less control over their health, but many people utilize more of it.
*c. more control over their health, but many people do not utilize it.
d. less control over their health, and cannot apply what they have.
19. Clara did not have any history of type 1 diabetes, but as an older adult she has developed
type 2 diabetes. Related to this development, what is most likely about the contributions of
lifestyle factors?
a. Her condition likely developed because Clara had long been eating an
unhealthy diet.
b. Her condition likely developed from unhealthy diet and smoking cigarettes for
years.
c. Her condition likely developed because of unhealthy diet and never getting
any exercise.
*d. Her condition likely developed through contributions from each of these
factors, plus stress.
20. Which of the following is most correct about health care in the United States today?
a. People historically had more control over their health than they have today.
b. Conditions that kill people today are more related to non-behavioral factors.
*c. Contributions to rising health care costs today include unhealthy behaviors.
d. Increasing health care costs today are due to technology, and not behaviors.
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