Test Bank For Health Psychology 4th Canadian Edition By Shelley E Taylor

Test Bank For Health Psychology 4th Canadian Edition By Shelley E Taylor

 ISBN-10: 1259362159 ISBN-13: 978-1259362156

Chapter 01

What is Health Psychology?

True / False Questions

1. The 1948 World Health Organization’s definition of health is analogous to a state of wellness.
   TRUE

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe and define health psychology.
Topic: 01-01 What is Health Psychology?

2. The World Health Organization defines health as a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
   TRUE

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe and define health psychology.
Topic: 01-01 What is Health Psychology?

3. Early cultures took a dualistic approach to the mind and the body.
   FALSE

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-02 Understand how our view of the mind-body relationship has changed over time.
Topic: 01-02 How has Our View of the Mind—Body Relationship Changed Over Time?

4. The ancient Greeks believed that an imbalance of bodily fluids caused illness.
   TRUE

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-02 Understand how our view of the mind-body relationship has changed over time.
Topic: 01-02 How has Our View of the Mind—Body Relationship Changed Over Time?

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

Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-02 Understand how our view of the mind-body relationship has changed over time.
Topic: 01-03 Psychoanalytic Contributions

6. The biomedical model emphasizes that the disease process is dependent on psychological and social processes.
   FALSE

Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-03 Explain the biopsychosocial model of health.
Topic: 01-08 The Biopsychosocial Model versus the Biomedical Model

7. The biopsychosocial model emphasizes the importance of an effective patient-practitioner relationship.
   TRUE

Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-03 Explain the biopsychosocial model of health.
Topic: 01-10 Clinical Implications of the Biopsychosocial Model

8. The most important factor giving rise to health psychology has been the expansion of health care services.
   FALSE

Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-04 Identify why the field of health psychology is needed.
Topic: 01-12 Why is The Field of Health Psychology Needed?