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PA 370 Quizzes with Answers

1. The plague resulted in the death of many during the Middle Ages was an example of a(n):
2. The area of medicine that investigates the causes, distribution and frequency of diseases within the population is:
3. In _____ research, neither those that collect data or research participants know the actual research purpose of the study.
4. The group receiving the treatment or condition is the:
5. The procedure used to minimize differences between experimental and control groups through assignment to groups by chance, is called:
6. Aaron believes that high doses of caffeine speed up a person’s reaction time. In order to test this hypothesis, he has six friends each drink four 6-ounce cups of an energy drink, then measures how quickly they are able to push a button when they hear a signal. What is wrong with this strategy?
7. Which of the following would be a description of the goals of a health psychologist?
8. Health comes from root words meaning:
9. According to Healthy People 2010, nearly 1,000,000 deaths in the United States annually are:
10. A health psychologist might use biofeedback to provide a patient with insight about his/her:

1. Alex wants to cut down on the amount of calories from fat that he consumes. He starts a food journal in which he records the food he eats and the amount of fat calories and other nutrients. This is an example of:
2. Lacing cigarettes with a nausea causing chemical to treat a tobacco use disorder is an intervention that relies on principles of:
3. People who tend toward self-enhancement:
4. Which type of intervention measures the status of a target behavior and examines consequences of the behavior?
5. Jamie, an individual with a binge eating disorder, works with her therapist to methodically remove unhealthy food choices from her home. This is an example of:
6. Binge drinking is associated with several social risk factors, including:
7. Bill has a very stressful day at work. He finds he doesn’t want to talk to his family and just wants to be by himself. Bill’s behavior is an example of:
8. Eudaimonic wellbeing focuses on each of the following except:
9. Which of the following is not true of health promotion psychologists?
10. The Health Action Process Approach model connects each of the following models except:

1. Which of the following best describes acute pain?
2. Pain affects more than ________ people worldwide:
3. Clinical pain:
4. Holistic medicine appeals to many people in part because it:
5. The Pain Response Preference Questionnaire (PRPQ) is used to assess which pain-related responses are preferred from:
6. What is a problem in measuring pain?
7. Aspirin, acetaminophen, and ibuprofen are categorized as:
8. Which of the following factors influence pain?
9. Opiates are considered to be:
10. The eclectic approach favored by many health care providers in managing pain is also known as a(n) ________ approach.

1. How atherosclerosis begins is
2. _________ is a controllable risk factors for cardiovascular disease.3. Which of the following is NOT one of the personality characteristics associated with a Type A behavior pattern?
3. Which of the following carries the greatest risk of myocardial infarction?
4. The ethnic group in the United States with the highest prevalence of diabetes mellitus is:
5. Benefit finding is
6. Which of the following is NOT a type of cancer:
7. Which of the following is not one of the foods identified as a cancer risk by the AICR and the WCRFQuestion 8 options:
8. Immunocompetence depends on factors including all of the following except:
9. Which of the following can be a sign or symptom of cancer, especially if it persists longer than expected:

1. According to the textbook, which is the closest thing we have to a fountain of youth?
2. Another phrase to describe cardiorespiratory endurance is:
3. Spot reduction, or reducing fat from one certain area of the body:
4. Which of the following is a health benefit of aerobic exercise?
5. Metabolic syndrome:
6. Which of the following is true of health education?
7. Which of the following are components of promoting a healthy workplace?
8. This eating disorder is a form of self-starvation:
9. This eating disorder encompasses a cycle of eating large quantities of food, then vomiting the food:
10. The health belief model assumes that decisions regarding health behavior are based on _______ interacting factors.

1. Self-efficacy is:
2. A strong sense of personal control has been associated with:
3. The type of social support that is most helpful for uncontrollable stressors is:
4. Self-efficacy helps to provide the ability to cope effectively cope with __________
5. Which of the following is not listed in the text as a symptom of burnout:
6. Martin Seligman has found that individuals in settings such as concentration camps, prisons, factories and nursing homes may develop:
7. Attempting to control an emotional response to a stressor is an example of _______ coping?
8. Hardy people tend to:
9. In their study of nursing home residents, Langer & Rodin found that residents were happier and healthier when:
10. Depression occurs less commonly in:

1. Those with AIDS experience weakened immune systems which leaves them vulnerable to opportunistic infections such as.
2. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is:
3. AIDS cannot be contracted by:
4. AIDS patients who are in denial they are infected may:
5. One approach psychologists use in an effort to increase medication adherence for AIDS patients is:
6. Generally speaking, mass media education campaigns for AIDS prevention have:
7. The most common route of transmission for HIV among African-Americans is:
8. _______________ transmission of HIV through vaginal intercourse is far less common than is ______________ transmission.
9. Which of the following groups in North America and Western Europe are most commonly affected by HIV?
10. Which of the following could result in an HIV infection?

1. Ongoing elevated levels of cortisol can lead to all of the following except:
2. Relational uncertainty may include:
3. Because hurt can cause emotional pain, interactions that are hurtful can cause similar reactions to:
4. Which types of forgiveness were found to be associated with relationship commitment and attachment components?
5. The mechanism through which forgiveness has its affect on health is theorized to be:
6. Which of the following is a physiological sign of acute pain?
7. In the Wilson and Ruben article, which of the following results was surprising and did not line up with the researchers’ hypothesis:
8. Among the various kinds of levels of exposure to family violence in which children may be involved, which leads to the greatest likelihood that a child will be referred to therapy for behavior problems
9. Which of the following is MOST likely to lead to repetition of IPV in adult relationships
10. Treatment models with results that are promising for trauma include all of the following except:

1. A medical approach that involves the inclusion of the proven research in helping patients with their care is:
2. This type of approach includes the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of patients/clients.
3. Erin’s physician combines traditional medical approaches with alternative medical therapies to treat her patients. Erin’s physician is using:
4. Which of the following is an approach to complementary and alternative medicine?
5. Alternative medicine is best defined as the use and practice of therapies or diagnostic techniques that:
6. Complementary and alternative medicine is used most often by:
7. Which of the following therapies would be considered holistic/alternative?
8. A health psychologist might use biofeedback to provide a patient with insight about his/her:
9. Marilyn is given a sugar pill but is told by the researcher that it will help her with her allergy symptoms. Soon after taking the pill, Marilyn stops sneezing, coughing, and blowing her nose. This is an example of:
10. Traditional Asian medicine in which needles are inserted into the skin in various areas of the body, in order to relieve pain, is:
11. Hypnosis appears to work well when assisting people in managing:
12. The biggest challenge facing people who advocate the use of alternative therapies is:
13. Most herbal remedies in the U.S.A. are called food supplements because:
14. How effective is acupuncture?
15. Those with AIDS may develop pneumonia, some cancers, and other _______ because they experience weakened immune systems.
16. AIDS is considered a pandemic because:
17. Self-efficacy is:
18. Community-based interventions:
19. Probiotics are:
20. Binge drinking is associated with several social risk factors, including:
21. Bill has a very stressful day at work. He finds he doesn’t want to talk to his family and just wants to be by himself. Bill’s behavior is an example of:
22. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is:
23. Andrea wants to cut down on the amount of soda she drinks. She spends a week in which she counts and records how many soft drinks she has each day. This is an example of:
24. Using the drug Antabuse to treat an alcohol use disorder is an intervention that relies on principles of:
25. People who tend toward self-enhancement:
26. Which type of intervention focuses on the conditions that promote health behaviors and the factors that reinforce them?
27. Jamie, an individual with a substance use disorder, takes a substance that makes her very sick if she consumes her drug of choice. This is an example of:
28. Charlie’s doctor tells him to try to avoid eating “trigger” foods, including milk and cheese products. The doctor apparently believes Ed has a(n):
29. nutritional medicine and megadose therapy.
30. AIDS is:
31. Atherosclerosis is a condition in which:
32. Withdrawal refers to:
33. Marijuana and LSD are categorized as:
34. A disease that spreads rapidly among many individuals in a community at the same time over a limited geographical area is called:
35. Which of the following is not one of the uncontrollable risk factors for CVD identified by the Framingham study?
36. Psychologists have a role in the AIDS epidemic because:
37. Generally speaking, mass media education campaigns emphasizing how AIDS is transmitted have:
38. According to evolutionary psychologists, what is a benefit of a set point for weight?
39. Which of the following is NOT a type of cancer:
40. During the prehistoric period, people often believed the cause of disease was due to:
41. 41, Health could be defined as:
42. Tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana are sometimes called _______________, because they might
43. Which of the following is the unhealthiest type of fat?

42. Max needs to smoke more and more cigarettes to experience the same effects of nicotine as when he first started using tobacco. A health psychologist would say that Max clearly has developed:
43. A person with prediabetes is NOT at risk for
44. The major dietary contributor to cancer is:
45. Which of the following is a symptom of alcohol withdrawal?
46. _______________ transmission of HIV through vaginal intercourse is far more common than is ______________ transmission.
47. Hepatitis and cirrhosis are two common chronic diseases caused by abuse of:
48. Traditional Oriental medicine believes:
49. Which of the following would be a description of the goals of a health psychologist?
50. One criticism of reward models of addiction is that they do not adequately explain how:
51. Because they enter the bloodstream faster, drugs that are _______________ usually have the strongest and most immediate effects.
52. The sweetener found in many foods that may be a contributing factor to diabetes and some other troubling health problems is:
53. Which of the following scenarios would NOT be expected to cause release of cortisol?
54. During stage 2 of HIV infection:
55. In small doses, alcohol is a(n) _______________; in large doses, it is a(n)_______________.
56. A desire to take higher doses of a substance in order to experience the same effects a smaller dose used to provide is an indication of:
57. Which of the following substances is a depressant?
58. According to Lawler-Row, Hyatt-Edwards, Wuensch and Karremans, which of the following is not a pattern involved in forgiveness?
59. Substance use disorder is defined as:
60. Which of the following groups in North America and Western Europe are most commonly affected by HIV?
61. Burnout results from stress that normally accompanies:
62. Strength training and short-distance sprints are considered:
63. Researchers have discovered a link between nicotine use and:
64. Which of the following is true regarding gender differences and stress, in terms of coping with stress?
65. Women who ingest alcohol during pregnancy may give birth to infants with:
66. Which of the following personality traits has been linked to alcohol dependence?
67. Martin Seligman has found that humans who are exposed to events they cannot control may develop:
68. When the amount of nicotine in cigarettes is lowered, smokers are likely to:
69. Dr. Meyers believes that adolescents and emerging adults who feel confident that they have the skills necessary to meet life’s demands, and who commit to themselves and their lives are less likely to develop a substance use disorder. Dr. Meyers is espousing the:
70. Psychologically distancing oneself from a stressor is an example of _______ coping?
71. Infants born to women who smoke during their pregnancies may experience a reduced supply of oxygen to their brains, which can result in:
72. New physicians are trained in how to critically appraise research using the principles of:
73. According to the _______________ hypothesis, alcohol use is reinforcing because it reduces stress.
74. Which is a common reason that people start smoking?
75. The three key traits of hardy people are:
76. Alcohol use disorder is:
77. Osteoporosis is:
78. In their study of nursing home residents, Langer & Rodin found that residents were happier and healthier when:
79. People who are successful at stopping their tobacco use usually:
80. The 4th leading risk factor for mortality in the world is:
81. The type of social support that is most helpful for uncontrollable stressors is:
82. According to Wilson and Ruben, which of the following is not true of hyperactivating strategies:
83. Neurobiological consequences for children who have witnessed or experienced abuse include all of the following except:
84. When she drinks alcohol, Angel experiences an inflated sense of confidence and lack of self-consciousness, which is known as:
85. Depression occurs more commonly in:
86. The group receiving no treatment or a placebo is the:
87. As part of a smoking-cessation program, Chris was instructed to smoke a cigarette very rapidly, until he became nauseous. This form of aversion therapy is directed at the person reaching a point of:
88. Which of the following research methods is considered quantitative, rather than qualitative?
89. Which is a factor that could help someone to quit smoking?
90. Which is an indicator of physical fitness?
91. The most common fatal injury among adolescents and emerging adults is:
92. The area of medicine that investigates the causes, spread, and control of diseases within the population is:
93. The number of deaths of infants under one year old, per 1,000 live births in a given year, is referred to as the infant _____ rate.
94. In _____ research, a representative sample of people are asked to answer questions about their attitudes or behaviors.
95. Light/moderate exercise performed for an extended period of time is called:
96. A strong sense of personal control has been associated with:
97. In the United States and other countries, which of the following is most likely to cause premature death?
98. Self-efficacy is