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,Chapter One—Health Psychology: Setting the StageMULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Health psychologists are most likely to define health as:
a. the absence of disease.
b. spiritual balance.
c. mental, physical, spiritual, and psychological well-being.
d. a pulse rate of 120/50 and a heart rate of 55 beats per minute.
ANS: C
REF: WHAT IS HEALTH?
2. Every day, each of our behaviors can influence our health. Given the many
components of being
healthy, health is best conceptualized as:
a. one-dimensional
c. a continuum
b. absolute
d. unstable
ANS: C
REF: WHAT IS HEALTH?
3. The WHO (World Health Organization) defines health as:
a. a state of physical and social well-being
b. a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being
c. eating and sleeping well, and taking time to relax
d. a transitional life experience
ANS: B
REF: WHAT IS HEALTH?
4. Which of the following is FALSE?
a. Perceptions of how well-off your family is have been found to influence health.
b. SES is related to morbidity, but not to mortality.
c. SES is related to a higher occurrence of most chronic and infectious disorders.
d. Neighborhood SES has been associated with poorer health practices.
ANS: B
REF: CONTEXT AND LEVEL OF ANALYSIS
5. Culture is best defined as:
a. a set of beliefs shared by a group
b. race and ethnicity
c. religion, family values, and race
d. the values of our parents and family members
ANS: A
REF: WHY IS CULTURE IMPORTANT?
6. Members of different cultures use different definitions of health, which in turn
vary from place to
place. This highlights the importance of studying the general concept of:
a. religion
c. geography
b. context
d. psychology
,ANS: B
REF: CONTEXT LEVEL OF ANALYSIS
7. Which of these circumstances is related to a higher occurrence of most chronic
and infectious
disorders?
a. sex
c. race
b. socioeconomic status
d. ethnicity
ANS: B
REF: CONTEXT LEVEL OF ANALYSIS
8. The Greek physician best known for dissections and providing us with anatomy
data was:
a. Plato
c. Hippocrates
b. Galen
d. Aginostophenes
ANS: B
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
9. Which of the following is the primary focus of health psychology?
a. health promotion and maintenance and preventing and treating illness
b. understanding the etiology of health and illness
c. revising the health care system
d. finding the cure for disease like HIV and cancer
ANS: A
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
10. _______ refers to the number of cases of a disease that exist at some given
point in time. _____
a. Morbidity
c. Epidemiology
b. Mortality
d. Etiology
ANS: A
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH
11. Which of the following is FAlSE?.
a. Death rates of African Americans are significantly higher than those of
Americans overall.
b. American Indians have a suicide rate that is higher than the national average.
c. Health care and disease incidence vary significantly across cultural groups.
d. Most health disparities are caused by factors related to sex rather than
cultural factors.
ANS: D
REF: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: SETTING THE STAGE: (INTRO)
12. In studying about cultural differences in health, we should remember that:
a. in-group differences and between-group differences both occur.
b. in-group differences are unlikely to occur because of shared belief systems..
c. racial differences outweigh all other cultural differences.
, d. most cultural differences are insignificant from a global level.
ANS: A
REF: SOME IMPORTANT WARNINGS
13. The major approach used by health psychologists is the:
a. biomedical model
c. biosocial model
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