health psychology chapter 1
1. Claudia goes to the university health center complaining of a sore throat and headache. A blood test
reveals that her white blood cell count is high, and a throat culture reveals a streptococcus infection.
Which of the following is true? - a. Claudia's high whit...
1. Claudia goes to the university health center complaining of a sore throat and headache. A blood test
reveals that her white blood cell count is high, and a throat culture reveals a streptococcus infection.
Which of the following is true?
- a. Claudia's high white blood cell count is a symptom of illness.
- b. Her sore throat is a sign of illness.
- c. The results of the blood test and throat culture are signs of illness. ✔️
- d. Her headache and high white blood count are symptoms of illness.
2. Common definitions of health include:
- a. optimal weight and endurance.
- b. absence of signs of malfunctioning.
- c. absence of subjective symptoms of disease.
- d. both b and c. ✔️
3. In his continuum of illness and health, Aaron Antonovsky suggested that:
- a. wellness and illness are independent concepts.
- b. medical treatment affects only the wellness side of the continuum.
- c. his model represents differing health statuses. ✔️
- d. lifestyle has little impact on health or illness.
4. In discussing the illness and health continuum, Antonovsky emphasizes:
- a. illness more than health.
- b. a revised focus toward what helps people stay healthy. ✔️
- c. the psychosocial factors that contribute to illness.
- d. the role of poverty in health care.
5. The term "health," as used by the author of the textbook, is best described as:
, - a. a positive state of mental, social, and physical well-being. ✔️
- b. the absence of illness.
- c. the absence of disease risks.
- d. lack of a terminal condition.
6. Infectious diseases were:
- a. more frequently fatal in the past than they are now.
- b. brought over to North America by European settlers.
- c. the greatest threat to American health in the 19th century.
- d. all of the above. ✔️
7. The decline in the death rate from infectious diseases by the end of the 19th century was largely the
result of:
- a. the development of antibiotics.
- b. advances in medical treatment.
- c. changing definitions of disease states in the medical community.
- d. preventive measures. ✔️
8. A person living in the United States today:
- a. is more likely to die of a chronic disease than any other cause of mortality. ✔️
- b. has a shorter life span than someone who lived in the 19th Century.
- c. is likely to be at high risk of dying of infections.
- d. has an average life expectancy over 90 years.
9. The procedure referred to as trephination:
- a. is effective in the treatment of chronic disease.
- b. is believed to have been done in the past for superstitious reasons. ✔️
- c. is frequently used today in the treatment of infectious diseases.
- d. was based on the humoral theory of illness.
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