Question 1

According to your text,all conditions of health and illness are influenced by

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A)   one's personality type.
B)   psychodynamics.
C)   psychological and social factors.
D)   None of these.E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 2

One advantage of correlational studies is the ability to study health-related variables in situations where the variable cannot be manipulated experimentally.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Explain the principles that characterize the psychosomatic movement.In what ways has the psychosomatic movement influenced the practice of health psychology?

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Question 4

AIDS is a chronic illness.This is because it

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A)   is psychosomatic in origin.
B)   is difficult for patients to manage, but seldom contributes to disability or death.
C)   can be cured only if the patient and the practitioner work together as a team.
D)   is an illness in which psychological and social factors play an important role in both cause and management.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 5

The fundamental assumption of the _______________ model is that health and illness are consequences of the interplay of biological,psychological,and social factors.

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A)   biomedical
B)   psychoemotional
C)   biopsychosocial
D)   psychosocialE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 6

Dr.Yee has taken the medical histories of 30 women who have the symptoms of a chronic illness.She is identifying factors in these histories that these patients share that have contributed to the development of their current illness.This is an example of

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A)   an experiment.
B)   prospective research.
C)   retrospective research.
D)   None of these.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 7

The advantage of theory in health psychology is:

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A)   that theories provide guidelines for how to do research.
B)   to generate specific predictions.
C)   to tie together loose ends.
D)   All of theseE) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 8

Morbidity may be expressed in two ways: as the number of new cases or as the total number of existing cases of an illness.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

A health psychologist who studies the impact of hospitals and physicians on people's behavior focuses on

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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) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 10

Systems theory assumes a principle of hierarchical organization.This implies that

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A)   changes in any one level will affect all other levels of the system.
B)   only changes in the highest level will affect all levels of the system.
C)   changes in one level will affect only lower levels of the system.
D)   changes in intermediate levels have the most profound impacts.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 11

Explain how prospective and retrospective research remedies the problems of correlational research.

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Question 12

Health psychologists interested in issues related to quality of life are likely to be most interested in which of the following?

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A)   prevalence of acute illnesses in the population
B)   mortality statistics
C)   morbidity statistics
D)   None of these.E) All of the above
F) A) and B) C

Question 13

Correlational studies have advantages over experiments because they allow one to

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A)   determine the direction of causality.
B)   study variables that may not be manipulated.
C)   rule out the influence of co-occurring variables.
D)   All of these.E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 14

Etiology refers to

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A)   causes of illness.
B)   a special kind of disease state.
C)   healthy behavior.
D)   stress effects.E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 15

Random assignment to conditions is an important characteristic of

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A)   experiments.
B)   correlational research.
C)   longitudinal research.
D)   All of these.E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 16

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.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Acute disorders are

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A)   short-term medical illnesses that are usually amenable to cure.
B)   typically diseases that are co-managed by patients and their practitioners.
C)   the major causes of death and illness in the United States.
D)   serious disorders such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.E) None of the above
F) A) and B) A

Question 18

_______________ linked specific personality patterns to specific illnesses.

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A)   Dunbar and Alexander
B)   Galen
C)   Hippocrates
D)   FreudE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 19

_______________ links patterns of personality to specific illnesses.

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A)   Psychoanalytic theory
B)   Psychosomatic medicine
C)   Freudian theory
D)   The biomedical modelE) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 20

In conversion hysteria,the patient converts psychological conflict into a symptom which then relieves the patient of anxiety.

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A) True 
 B)False

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One advantage of correlational studies is the ability to study health-related variables in situations where the variable cannot be manipulated experimentally.

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Explain the principles that characterize the psychosomatic movement.In what ways has the psychosomatic movement influenced the practice of health psychology?

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The fundamental assumption of the _______________ model is that health and illness are consequences of the interplay of biological,psychological,and social factors.

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The advantage of theory in health psychology is:

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Morbidity may be expressed in two ways: as the number of new cases or as the total number of existing cases of an illness.

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A health psychologist who studies the impact of hospitals and physicians on people's behavior focuses on

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Explain how prospective and retrospective research remedies the problems of correlational research.

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