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

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