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,Chapter 01 - What is Health Psychology?Chapter 01
What is Health Psychology?
True / False Questions
1. The 1948 World Health Organization's definition of health is analogous to a state of
wellness.
TRUE
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe and define health psychology.
Topic: 01-01 What is Health Psychology?
2. The World Health Organization defines health as a complete state of physical, mental, and
social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
TRUE
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe and define health psychology.
Topic: 01-01 What is Health Psychology?
3. Early cultures took a dualistic approach to the mind and the body.
FALSE
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-02 Understand how our view of the mind-body relationship has changed over time.
Topic: 01-02 How has Our View of the Mind—Body Relationship Changed Over Time?
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,Chapter 01 - What is Health Psychology?
4. The ancient Greeks believed that an imbalance of bodily fluids caused illness.
TRUE
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-02 Understand how our view of the mind-body relationship has changed over time.
Topic: 01-02 How has Our View of the Mind—Body Relationship Changed Over Time?
5. In conversion hysteria, the patient converts psychological conflict into a symptom which
then relieves the patient of anxiety.
TRUE
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-02 Understand how our view of the mind-body relationship has changed over time.
Topic: 01-03 Psychoanalytic Contributions
6. The biomedical model emphasizes that the disease process is dependent on psychological
and social processes.
FALSE
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-03 Explain the biopsychosocial model of health.
Topic: 01-08 The Biopsychosocial Model versus the Biomedical Model
7. The biopsychosocial model emphasizes the importance of an effective patient-practitioner
relationship.
TRUE
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-03 Explain the biopsychosocial model of health.
Topic: 01-10 Clinical Implications of the Biopsychosocial Model
1-2
, Chapter 01 - What is Health Psychology?
8. The most important factor giving rise to health psychology has been the expansion of
health care services.
FALSE
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-04 Identify why the field of health psychology is needed.
Topic: 01-12 Why is The Field of Health Psychology Needed?
9. Morbidity may be expressed in two ways: as the number of new cases or as the total
number of existing cases of an illness.
TRUE
Blooms: Analyze
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Learning Objective: 01-04 Identify why the field of health psychology is needed.
Topic: 01-13 Changing Patterns of Illness
10. Although health psychologists have been employed in health settings for many years, they
have difficulty establishing their credibility with physicians and other health care
professionals.
FALSE
Blooms: Analyze
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Learning Objective: 01-04 Identify why the field of health psychology is needed.
Topic: 01-15 Increased Medical Acceptance
11. Public health researchers have the goal of improving the health of the general population
through research and interventions.
TRUE
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 3 Hard
Learning Objective: 01-05 Relate the purpose of health psychology training.
Topic: 01-19 Careers in Research
Multiple Choice Questions
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