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Health Psychology 260
Kellogg Community College
Talbot
Please select the best answer to each of the following multiple choice questions. (2 pts each)
Highlight your answers within this document as you will be saving it and returning to your instructor as
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1.
When children cry as soon as they enter the hospital where they have been given painful
inoculations in the past, the crying can be considered:
a. Inappropriate
b. A conditioned response
c. A conditioned stimulus
d. An unconditional behavior
e. An operating response
2.
The experience of pain:
a. Can be minimized if someone is told to pay attention to the source of the pain
b. Can me made more intense if someone is told to pay attention to the source of the pain
c. Is unrelated to attentional factors
d. Is the same for everyone
e. Can be measured with a pain meter
3.
New drugs sometimes become less effective over time because:
a. The body becomes immune to their chemical structure
b. Patients get tired of taking them and stop
c. As failures are reported, the expectation effects fade
d. Drug companies begin to manufacture them to be less potent
e. Doctors prescribe them to patients who do not need them
4.
Psychosomatic illnesses:
a. Have no observable physical explanation
b. Cannot be treated with medication
c. Are organic disorders that are caused by psychological and emotional problems
d. Are psychological disorders originally caused by serious organic diseases
e. Are illnesses that are caused by hormonal imbalance
5.
Which of the following is (are) evidence of the relationship between the mind and the body:
a. Bed rest due to a serious illness can produce depression in a normally active person
b. A tumor on one of the endocrine glands can cause an increase in hormones that regulate
mood
c. Damage to the frontal cortex of the brain can cause an increase in impulsivity
d. A physical disfiguration can cause a patient to receive negative reactions from others which
can affect his or her self-image
e. All of the above
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6.
Bodily sensations:
a. Are more likely to be interpreted as a symptom of illness if someone is in a negative mood
b. Are more likely to be interpreted as a symptom of illness if someone is in a positive mood
c. Are always interpreted as symptoms of illness
d. Are usually indicative of an organic disease
e. Are often ignored by individuals high in anxiety
7.
Employees:
a. Sometimes suffer from ulcers and mental breakdown due to work-related stress
b. Are increasingly beginning to seek compensation for work-related stress
c. Have had cases seeking compensation for work-related stress upheld in court when there is
clear evidence of disability
d. May benefit from stress reduction programs in the work place
e. All of the above
8.
Emotion-focused coping may be most useful when dealing with:
a. A threat
b. A challenge
c. A new situation
d. A problem at work
e. A loss
9.
Problem-solving coping:
a. Often occurs simultaneously with emotion-focused coping
b. Often involves avoiding thinking about the situation
c. Is less successful that emotion-focused coping
d. Can only be used by highly educated individuals
e. Is only successful for those who have received training to use it
10.
Although dietary changes may account for the finding that the risk of heart disease is greater for
Japanese people living in the United States than for those in Japan, James Lynch has suggested
that an alternative explanation may be that:
a. The air is cleaner in Japan
b. Men exercise more in Japan
c. Family ties are weakened when individuals come to the United States
d. Workers experience more stress in the United States
e. Heart medication is more widely available in Japan
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11.
It is likely that the relationship between personality and health factors:
a. Is a causal one from personality to health
b. Is a causal one from health to personality
c. Involves feedback loops between both factors
d. Is imagined
e. Is artifactual
12.
In monkey species, increased development of atherosclerosis in the presence of a high fat diet
was found only for monkeys:
a. Who were presently the dominant male in the group
b. With an unstable group hierarchy
c. Living in pairs
d. Living alone
e. Who were presently in the middle of the dominance hierarchy
13.
Impulsivity:
a. Is directly linked to health
b. Is indirectly linked to health through the tendency for impulsive individuals to gravitate towards
unhealthy behaviors
c. Is indirectly linked to health through the tendency for impulsive individuals to be depressed
d. Is indirectly linked to health through the tendency for impulsive individuals to be hostile
e. Is indirectly linked to health through the tendency for impulsive individuals to lack the
motivation to exercise frequently
14.
Blaming the victim for their own poor health:
a. Is the inevitable result of any research linking personality and disease
b. Is a 20th century phenomena
c. Allows the individual placing blame to feel less threatened themselves
d. Is unlikely to occur today
e. Only makes the person placing the blame feel worse
15.
Hospital conditions could be improved if patients were allowed:
a. More sleep
b. Greater control
c. More medication
d. Increased time with physicians
e. Healthy food
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16.
The gestures of emotionally-balanced, self-healing individuals are:
a. Smooth and move away from the body
b. Restrained and close to the body
c. Rare because such people are usually very still
d. Wide and boisterous
e. Tense and jerky
17.
Which of the following are at the highest risk of disease:
a. Recent immigrants
b. The children of immigrants (1st generation)
c. The grandchildren of immigrants (2nd generation)
d. The great-grandchildren of immigrants (3rd generation)
e. Immigrants who returned to their country of origin
18.
Low-key, goal-oriented individuals are likely to show great distress and increased release of
stress hormones when:
a. There is a lack of stimulation
b. They encounter any challenge
c. A challenge remains unresolved
d. They have no challenge to work towards
e. Someone behaves assertively towards them
19.
With regards to physical appearance, patients:
a. Should try not to be concerned with such superficial issues and focus on the more serious
matter of treatment
b. Should try to keep themselves as attractive as possible
c. Can usually ignore the reactions of others to the changes in their appearance
d. Rarely find that changes in their appearance impact their psychological state
e. Seldom allow changes in their physical appearance to affect their self-image
20.
When discussing his or her condition with a cancer patients, a physician should:
a. Tell the patient of his or her treatment and prognosis while the patient is alone
b. Tell the patient of his or her treatment and prognosis while the patient has a close friend or
family member present
c. Use technical language and be as precise as possible
d. Reveal the diagnosis first and then reveal the treatment on a separate occasion
e. Explain the diagnosis over the telephone in a brief conversation
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21.
Patients with a chronic illness:
a. Always choose to comply with prescribed treatment regimes
b. Have no choice as to their treatments and are always forced to comply with requests
c. Are less likely than those with an acute illness to cooperate and follow medical directions
d. Are more likely than those with an acute illness to cooperate and follow medical directions
e. Are just as likely as those with an acute illness to cooperate and follow medical directions
22.
All of the following are adaptive coping mechanisms when dealing with a chronic illness EXCEPT:
a. Visualization of the body's immune system attacking the disease
b. Rehearsing alternative future outcomes
c. Seeking information about the disease from medical practitioners
d. Constantly asking family and friends for reassurance that you will recover
e. Setting goals to work towards
23.
The length of the grief reaction:
a. Is shorter for those with ambivalent feelings about their deceased spouses
b. Is almost always about 2 months
c. Is always less than one year
d. Depends on many factors such as the nature of the relationship and the degree of
dependency the bereaved person had to the deceased
e. Can be shortened if individuals attempt to avoid the intense feelings of grief
24.
Which of the following is one of the 5 common components of grief:
a. Dependency
b. Hostility towards others
c. Post-traumatic stress
d. Burnout
e. Relief
25.
All of the following are risk factors for suicide EXCEPT:
a. Poor family relations
b. History of physical or sexual abuse
c. Access to guns or poisons
d. Alcoholism
e. Regular church attendance
Answer each of the following short answer questions thoroughly. You may type your answers into this
document following each question, as you will be resaving this document and returning to your
instructor for grading and comments.
26.
Explain what is meant by a double-blind procedure and the value it provides to an experiment.
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27.
Define the diathesis-stress model and give an example of how it might be observed by a nurse
within a hospital setting.
28.
Differentiate between an internal locus of control and external locus of control. How might these
affect one’s health?
29.
List Kubler-Ross' stages of dying. Do you agree or disagree with the stages? Explain.
30.
Explain what hospice is and its intended purpose. Include in your explanation the possible
benefits and detriments of such a program and your overall opinion. Make sure to support the
opinion with facts.