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Testbank for Health Psychology by Annette L. Stanton and Shelley E. Taylor

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Test Bank for Health Psychology – Annette L. Stanton & Shelley E. Taylor Ace your health psychology exams with this comprehensive test bank, designed to help you understand key concepts and prepare effectively! Hundreds of Exam-Style Questions – Multiple-choice, true/false, and short-answer questions Covers All Chapters – Fully aligned with the textbook Detailed Answer Keys – Clear explanations to reinforce your understanding Perfect for Exams, Quizzes & Assignments – Great for self-study or instructor use Instant Digital Download – Study anytime, anywhere Best for: Psychology, nursing, and health sciences students studying mind-body interactions, stress, health behaviors, and medical psychology. Affordable Price – Limited Offer! DM me for details or to purchase today!

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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.
E) developmental
psychology.
A) psychosomatic medicine.
B) health psychology.
C) medical psychology.
D) comparative psychology.



2) According to Taylor, Sirois, and Molnar (2019), health
psychology encompasses all but the following:
health policy.
E) a primary
A) health promotion and maintenance. focus on the biology of
B) prevention and treatment of illness. illness and disease
C) etiology and correlations of health, illness, and
dysfunction.
D) the health care system and the formulation of



3) Etiology refers to _____.
E) the prevalence
of disease in a population
A) the origins or causes of illness
B) a special kind of disease state
C) healthy behaviour
D) the effects of stress



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)




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Microorganisms (i.e., bacteria) E) Immunology
B) Cardiovascular system
C) Health habits (i.e., exercise)
D) The biomedical model



5) Health psychologists who are interested in the impact behaviour would focus on
of health institutions and health professionals on people's all but the following:
E) physician
malpractice
A) emergency room wait times
B) physician-patient communication
C) geographical locations of hospitals
D) the biomedical model



6) Which group proposed humoral theory for
understanding the links between temperament and illness?
E) Russian
A) Ancient Chinese shaman
B) Germanic tribes
C) Vikings
D) Ancient Greeks



7) In 1986, the Epp Report proposed a health promotion the ____________ that
approach to health that meant giving greater consideration to contour health.
E)
microorganisms
A) temperature and climate
B) biological mechanisms
C) social forces
D) psychological conditions
8) In 1973, the field of behavioural medicine emerged with
the release of which of the following important documents?




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E) Rodriguez's
document: Escaping the
A) John's book: Social Forces
Mind
B) Birk's book: Biofeedback: Behavioral Medicine
C) Smith's journal: Disease Prevention
D) Horton's government report: Back to the Essence



9) In ____________________, the Church was the
guardian of medical knowledge.
D) 19 th century
E) the Stone Age
A) ancient Greece
B) the Middle Ages
C) the Renaissance



10) Conversion hysteria
E) occurs when
physical disturbances
produce specific
A) is still a dominant viewpoint in health psychology. unconscious conflicts.
B) occurs when specific unconscious conflicts produce
physical disturbances.
C) opposed the viewpoints of Sigmund Freud.
D) was proposed by the ancient Greeks.



11) The field of behavioural medicine
D) preceded
the works of Sigmund
A) focuses on objective and clinically relevant
Freud.
interventions.
E) was the
B) relies on subjective, verbal interventions.
basis
C) does not recognize biofeedback as a treatment
for the field of
intervention.
psychoanalysis.


12) _______________ linked patterns of personality
rather than a single specific conflict to specific illnesses.
A) Dunbar and



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Alexander D) Freud
B) Galen E) Cattell
C) Hippocrates



13) Who argued that conflicts produce anxiety, which
becomes unconscious and takes a physiological toll on the
body?
E) Scholars in the
Middle Ages
A) Hippocrates
B) Dunbar and Alexander
C) Ancient Greeks
D) Ancient Romans



14) An example of a disorder believed to be
psychosomatic in origin is _______.
D) yellow fever
A) hyperthyroidism E) measles
B) a tumour
C) typhoid
15) Which of the following statements best reflects a D) Healing
current perspective of the mind-body relationship? relies most heavily on the
patient's belief
in the physician.
A) Repressed psychological conflicts can
E) Illness
manifest as physical symptoms and illness.
results only from a
B) Health and healing involve the interrelation of breakdown of organic and
all of the body's systems, and illness arises as a disharmony cellular changes within
between these systems. the body.
C) Illness is largely a product of one's
temperament.




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