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CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTH
True/False Statements

1. Advances in medical treatment were responsible for a sharp decrease
in infectious diseases at the turn of the 20th century.

Answer: False
Section Reference: Illness Today and in the Past


2. Today, accidental injury is the leading cause of death in children and
adolescents in Canada.

Answer: True
Section Reference: Illness Today and in the Past


3. During the Middle Ages, the influence of the Church resulted in many
major advancements in medical knowledge.

Answer: False
Section Reference: The Middle Ages


4. “Risk factors” are those biological or behavioral characteristics that are
known to cause a disease.

Answer: False
Section Reference: “The Person” in Health and Illness


5. In the past, practitioners of psychosomatic medicine generally used a
psychoanalytic model to explain a physical symptom.

Answer: True
Section Reference: How the Role of Psychology Emerged


6. One of the goals of health psychology is to have an effect on public
policy.

Answer: True
Section Reference: How the Role of Psychology Emerged


7. The biopsychosocial model of health and illness is actually an extension

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of the biomedical model.


Answer: True
Section Reference: The Biopsychosocial Perspective


8. The "systems" approach assumes simple systems are embedded
within complex systems.

Answer: True
Section Reference: The Biopsychosocial Perspective


9. Although sociocultural research has found differences in health beliefs
across cultures, disease patterns themselves do not differ.

Answer: False
Section Reference: Health and Psychology Across Cultures)


10. Quasi‑experimental designs allow us to make causal conclusions from
existing groups.

Answer: False
Section Reference: Quasi-Experimental Studies)

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Matching
Match one of the following with descriptions given in questions 11 to 15.
a. Hippocrates
b. Plato
c. Galen
d. St. Thomas Aquinas
e. Descartes

11. From his work, which included dissection, this second century
physician felt that pathologies could be localized in parts of the body.

Answer: c
Section Reference: Ancient Greece and Rome


12. An Italian philosopher, he saw the mind and body as an interrelated unit.

Answer: d
Section Reference: The Middle Ages


13. He was among the Greek philosophers to propose that the mind and body
are separate entities.

Answer: b
Section Reference: Ancient Greece and Rome


14. Called "the father of medicine," his humoral theory for the origin of
disease was influential for centuries.

Answer: a
Section Reference: Ancient Greece and Rome


15. He described in mechanical terms the functioning of the body's actions
and sensations such as pain.

Answer: e
Section Reference: The Renaissance and After

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Match the following with descriptions given in questions 16 through 20
a. epidemiology
b. public health
c. medical sociology
d. medical anthropology
e. health psychology

16. Provides direct service to patients in the management of their illnesses
or engages in research and teaching.

Answer: e
Section Reference: Health Psychology: The Profession


17. Concerned with the incidence and prevalence of illnesses.

Answer: a
Section Reference: Related Fields


18. Organizes health education or provides community health services.

Answer: b
Section Reference: Related Fields


19. May conduct studies of health care services and how they are organized.

Answer: c
Section Reference: Related Fields


20. May conduct studies on the medical practices in different cultures.

Answer: d
Section Reference: Related Fields

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