Test Bank and Instructor Manual for Health Psychology 5th Edition (Canadian
edition) By Shelley E. Taylor
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,Student name:
1) is the subarea of psychology devoted to understanding
psychological influences on health, illness, and responses to those states, as well as the
psychological origins and impacts of health policy and health interventions.
A) psychosomatic medicine.
B) health psychology.
C) medical psychology.
D) comparative psychology.
E) developmental psychology.
2) According to Taylor, Sirois, and Molnar (2019), health psychology encompasses all but
the following:
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) a primary focus on the biology of illness and disease
3) Etiology refers to .
A) the origins or causes of illness
B) a special kind of disease state
C) healthy behaviour
D) the effects of stress
E) the prevalence of disease in a population
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,4) Health psychologists who are interested in the behavioural and social factors that
contribute to health or illness and dysfunction would focus on which of the following in
particular?
A) Microorganisms (i.e., bacteria)
B) Cardiovascular system
C) Health habits (i.e., exercise)
D) The biomedical model
E) Immunology
5) Health psychologists who are interested in the impact of health institutions and health
professionals on people's behaviour would focus on all but the following:
A) emergency room wait times
B) physician-patient communication
C) geographical locations of hospitals
D) the biomedical model
E) physician malpractice
6) Which group proposed humoral theory for understanding the links between temperament
and illness?
A) Ancient Chinese
B) Germanic tribes
C) Vikings
D) Ancient Greeks
E) Russian shaman
7) In 1986, the Epp Report proposed a health promotion approach to health that meant
giving greater consideration to the that contour health.
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, A) temperature and climate
B) biological mechanisms
C) social forces
D) psychological conditions
E) microorganisms
8) In 1973, the field of behavioural medicine emerged with the release of which of the
following important documents?
A) John's book: Social Forces
B) Birk's book: Biofeedback: Behavioral Medicine
C) Smith's journal: Disease Prevention
D) Horton's government report: Back to the Essence
E) Rodriguez's document: Escaping the Mind
9) In , the Church was the guardian of medical knowledge.
A) ancient Greece
B) the Middle Ages
C) the Renaissance
D) 19 th century
E) the Stone Age
10) Conversion hysteria
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edition) By Shelley E. Taylor
1
,Student name:
1) is the subarea of psychology devoted to understanding
psychological influences on health, illness, and responses to those states, as well as the
psychological origins and impacts of health policy and health interventions.
A) psychosomatic medicine.
B) health psychology.
C) medical psychology.
D) comparative psychology.
E) developmental psychology.
2) According to Taylor, Sirois, and Molnar (2019), health psychology encompasses all but
the following:
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) a primary focus on the biology of illness and disease
3) Etiology refers to .
A) the origins or causes of illness
B) a special kind of disease state
C) healthy behaviour
D) the effects of stress
E) the prevalence of disease in a population
2
,4) Health psychologists who are interested in the behavioural and social factors that
contribute to health or illness and dysfunction would focus on which of the following in
particular?
A) Microorganisms (i.e., bacteria)
B) Cardiovascular system
C) Health habits (i.e., exercise)
D) The biomedical model
E) Immunology
5) Health psychologists who are interested in the impact of health institutions and health
professionals on people's behaviour would focus on all but the following:
A) emergency room wait times
B) physician-patient communication
C) geographical locations of hospitals
D) the biomedical model
E) physician malpractice
6) Which group proposed humoral theory for understanding the links between temperament
and illness?
A) Ancient Chinese
B) Germanic tribes
C) Vikings
D) Ancient Greeks
E) Russian shaman
7) In 1986, the Epp Report proposed a health promotion approach to health that meant
giving greater consideration to the that contour health.
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, A) temperature and climate
B) biological mechanisms
C) social forces
D) psychological conditions
E) microorganisms
8) In 1973, the field of behavioural medicine emerged with the release of which of the
following important documents?
A) John's book: Social Forces
B) Birk's book: Biofeedback: Behavioral Medicine
C) Smith's journal: Disease Prevention
D) Horton's government report: Back to the Essence
E) Rodriguez's document: Escaping the Mind
9) In , the Church was the guardian of medical knowledge.
A) ancient Greece
B) the Middle Ages
C) the Renaissance
D) 19 th century
E) the Stone Age
10) Conversion hysteria
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