Test Bank for Health Psychology – 11th Edition by
Shelley Taylor and Annette L. Stanton | Complete Exam
Questions & Answers 2025/2026
Contents
Health Psychology, 11e
Part 1 Introduction to Health Psychology
CHAPTER 1: What is Health Psychology?
CHAPTER 2: The Systems of the Body
Part 2 Health Behavior and Primary Prevention
,CHAPTER 3: Health Behaviors
CHAPTER 4: Health-Promoting Behaviors
CHAPTER 5: Health-Compromising Behaviors
Part 3 Stress and Coping
CHAPTER 6: Stress
CHAPTER 7: Coping, Resilience, and Social Support
Part 4 Seeking and Using Health Care Services
CHAPTER 8: Using Health Services
CHAPTER 9: Patients, Providers, and Treatments
CHAPTER 10: The Management of Pain and Discomfort
Part 5 Management of Chronic and Terminal Health Disorders
CHAPTER 11: Management of Chronic Health Disorders
CHAPTER 12: Psychological Issues in Advancing and Terminal
Illness
CHAPTER 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Type 2
Diabetes
CHAPTER 14: Psychoneuroimmunology and Immune-Related
Disorders
Part 6 Toward the Future
CHAPTER 15: Health Psychology: Challenges for the Future
CHAPTER 1: What is Health Psychology?
A prospective research is conducted to:
A) solve practical problems in a scientific manner at any given point in time.
B) assess how the relationship between two variables changes over time.
C) reconstruct the conditions that led to a current situation.
, D) measure whether a change in one variable corresponds with changes in another
variable. - ANSWER: B
According to a study conducted in 2009, which of the following was the leading
cause of deaths in the United States?
A) Nephritis
B) Alzheimer's
C) Vehicular accidents
D) Heart diseases - ANSWER: D
According to the humoral theory of illness, black bile is associated with:
A) a passionate temperament.
B) a laid-back approach to life.
C) an angry disposition.
D) sadness. - ANSWER: D
Around _____ percent of Ph.D.s in health psychology work as private practitioners
who provide individual and group counseling.
A) 43
B) 12
C) 22
D) 36 - ANSWER: D
Correlational research measures the change in one variable that is caused by
another variable.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
Dunbar and Alexander maintained that conflicts produce anxiety, which becomes
unconscious and takes a physiological toll on the body via the _____ system.
A) integumentary
B) lymphatic
C) autonomic nervous
D) central nervous - ANSWER: C
Epidemiology is the study of the frequency, distribution, and causes of disease in a
population.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: A
, In correlational studies, it is easy to determine the direction of causality
unambiguously.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
Longitudinal research is a particular type of retrospective study.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
Men and women have the same life expectancy.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
Meta-analysis is a particularly powerful methodological tool, because it uses a broad
array of diverse evidence to reach conclusions.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: A
Morbidity refers to the number of deaths due to a particular disease.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
Retrospective methods were critical in identifying the risk factors that led to the
development of AIDS.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: A
The Ancient Greeks believed that disease resulted when the five circulating fluids of
the body were out of balance.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
The biopsychosocial model of health emphasizes the idea that:
A) illnesses can be explained on the basis of neurophysiological abnormalities.
B) illness and health are contrasting concepts, and health is only achieved in the
absence of illness.
C) health becomes something that one achieves through attention to biological,
psychological, and social needs rather than something that is taken for granted.
D) the mind and body are separate and ought to be studied as separate entities. -
ANSWER: C
The field of health psychology has been instrumental in developing:
Shelley Taylor and Annette L. Stanton | Complete Exam
Questions & Answers 2025/2026
Contents
Health Psychology, 11e
Part 1 Introduction to Health Psychology
CHAPTER 1: What is Health Psychology?
CHAPTER 2: The Systems of the Body
Part 2 Health Behavior and Primary Prevention
,CHAPTER 3: Health Behaviors
CHAPTER 4: Health-Promoting Behaviors
CHAPTER 5: Health-Compromising Behaviors
Part 3 Stress and Coping
CHAPTER 6: Stress
CHAPTER 7: Coping, Resilience, and Social Support
Part 4 Seeking and Using Health Care Services
CHAPTER 8: Using Health Services
CHAPTER 9: Patients, Providers, and Treatments
CHAPTER 10: The Management of Pain and Discomfort
Part 5 Management of Chronic and Terminal Health Disorders
CHAPTER 11: Management of Chronic Health Disorders
CHAPTER 12: Psychological Issues in Advancing and Terminal
Illness
CHAPTER 13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Type 2
Diabetes
CHAPTER 14: Psychoneuroimmunology and Immune-Related
Disorders
Part 6 Toward the Future
CHAPTER 15: Health Psychology: Challenges for the Future
CHAPTER 1: What is Health Psychology?
A prospective research is conducted to:
A) solve practical problems in a scientific manner at any given point in time.
B) assess how the relationship between two variables changes over time.
C) reconstruct the conditions that led to a current situation.
, D) measure whether a change in one variable corresponds with changes in another
variable. - ANSWER: B
According to a study conducted in 2009, which of the following was the leading
cause of deaths in the United States?
A) Nephritis
B) Alzheimer's
C) Vehicular accidents
D) Heart diseases - ANSWER: D
According to the humoral theory of illness, black bile is associated with:
A) a passionate temperament.
B) a laid-back approach to life.
C) an angry disposition.
D) sadness. - ANSWER: D
Around _____ percent of Ph.D.s in health psychology work as private practitioners
who provide individual and group counseling.
A) 43
B) 12
C) 22
D) 36 - ANSWER: D
Correlational research measures the change in one variable that is caused by
another variable.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
Dunbar and Alexander maintained that conflicts produce anxiety, which becomes
unconscious and takes a physiological toll on the body via the _____ system.
A) integumentary
B) lymphatic
C) autonomic nervous
D) central nervous - ANSWER: C
Epidemiology is the study of the frequency, distribution, and causes of disease in a
population.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: A
, In correlational studies, it is easy to determine the direction of causality
unambiguously.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
Longitudinal research is a particular type of retrospective study.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
Men and women have the same life expectancy.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
Meta-analysis is a particularly powerful methodological tool, because it uses a broad
array of diverse evidence to reach conclusions.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: A
Morbidity refers to the number of deaths due to a particular disease.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
Retrospective methods were critical in identifying the risk factors that led to the
development of AIDS.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: A
The Ancient Greeks believed that disease resulted when the five circulating fluids of
the body were out of balance.
A) True
B) False - ANSWER: B
The biopsychosocial model of health emphasizes the idea that:
A) illnesses can be explained on the basis of neurophysiological abnormalities.
B) illness and health are contrasting concepts, and health is only achieved in the
absence of illness.
C) health becomes something that one achieves through attention to biological,
psychological, and social needs rather than something that is taken for granted.
D) the mind and body are separate and ought to be studied as separate entities. -
ANSWER: C
The field of health psychology has been instrumental in developing:
