Health Psychology, 6th Canadian Edition By Shelley
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Health Psychology, 6th Canadian Edition By Shelley
Test Bank for Health Psychology 6th Canadian Edition By Shelley Taylor (All Chapters, 100% original verified, A+ Grade)
Test Bank for Health Psychology 6th Canadian Edition By Shelley Taylor (All Chapters, 100% original verified, A+ Grade)
Test Bank for Health Psychology 6th Canadian Edition By Shelley Taylor (All Chapters 100% Original Verified, A+
Grade) Test Bank Answers at the end of each chapter.
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Student name:__________
1) __________________ is the subarea of psychology devoted to understanding psychological
influences on health, illness, and responses to those states, as well as the psychological
origins and impacts of health policy and health interventions.
A) Psychosomatic medicine
B) Health psychology
C) Medical psychology
D) Biomedical psychology
E) The biopsychosocial model
2) According to the textbook, health psychology encompasses all options EXCEPT:
A) health promotion and maintenance.
B) prevention and treatment of illness.
C) etiology and correlations of health, illness, and dysfunction.
D) the health care system and the formulation of health policy.
E) a primary focus on the biology of illness and disease
3) Etiology refers to _____.
A) the origins or causes of illness
B) a special kind of disease state
C) cures for diseases
D) the effects of stress
E) the prevalence of disease in a population
4) Health psychologists who are interested in the behavioural and social factors that contribute
to health or illness and dysfunction would focus on which of the following in particular?
A) Microorganisms (i.e., bacteria)
B) Cardiovascular system
C) Health habits (i.e., exercise)
D) The biomedical model
E) Immunology
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5) Health psychologists who are interested in the impact of health institutions and health
professionals on people's behaviour would focus on all but the following:
A) emergency room wait times
B) physician-patient communication
C) geographical locations of hospitals
D) the biomedical model
E) physician malpractice
6) What is the process called where small holes were created in skulls, presumably to let the
evil spirits out?
A) Cauterization
B) Exorcism
C) Stenting
D) Letting
E) Trephination
7) Very early medicine believed that illness occurred when assorted bodily fluids became
unbalanced. This was called:
A) Humoral theory
B) Equilibrium theory
C) Fluidity theory
D) Dynamic theory
E) Biological determinism
8) Which group proposed humoral theory for understanding the links between temperament and
illness?
A) Ancient Chinese
B) Aztecs
C) Neolithics
D) Ancient Greeks
E) Indigenous shamans
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9) Hippocrates placed the origin of disease within the body and argued for the balance of which
humors?
A) Blood, bile, phlegm, feces.
B) Green bile, yellow bile, mucus, blood.
C) Blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm.
D) Green bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm.
E) Mucus, feces, blood, bile.
10) In addition to determining illnesses, humoral theory was also thought to be somewhat
predictive of
A) life expectancy.
B) fertility.
C) vitality.
D) strength.
E) personality.
11) In 1986, the Epp Report proposed a health promotion approach to health that meant giving
greater consideration to the ____________ that contour health.
A) temperature and climate
B) biological mechanisms
C) social forces
D) psychological conditions
E) microorganisms
12) In ____________________, the Church was the guardian of medical knowledge.
A) ancient Greece
B) the Middle Ages
C) the Renaissance
D) 19th century
E) the Stone Age
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13) When was it first accepted that thoughts and beliefs of the mind could influence the
occurrence and treatment of physical states?
A) Ancient Greece
B) The Middle Ages
C) The Renaissance
D) 19th century
E) Industrial revolution
14) Which philosopher argued for a doctrine of mind-body dualism?
A) Plato
B) Socrates
C) Aristotle
D) Descartes
E) Nietsche
15) Which Freudian construct implicates a mind/body connection?
A) Conversion hysteria
B) Unconscious conflict
C) Sexual and aggressive drives
D) Reaction formation
E) Ego and id
16) Conversion hysteria
A) is still a dominant viewpoint in health psychology.
B) occurs when specific unconscious conflicts produce physical disturbances.
C) opposed the viewpoints of Sigmund Freud.
D) was proposed by the ancient Greeks.
E) occurs when physical disturbances produce specific unconscious conflicts.
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