Question 1

The idea of a healthy lifestyle arose in the fifteenth century in China.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The strongest predictor for smoking/non-smoking is ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  one or both parents smoked 
B)  level of education 
C)  current household income 
D)  knowledge regarding health effects of smoking

Question 3

What is "nudging"? How useful is this strategy for improving population health?

Accepted Answer

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Question 4

A methodologically individualist approach to health assumes free will-a capacity of the person to choose behaviours.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Behaviourist interventions using reminders, nudges, and rewards are ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  highly effective 
B)  never effective 
C)  able to make a short-term difference 
D)  likely to yield mixed and sometimes perverse results

Question 6

Stress, both during childhood and later in life due to workplace, neighbourhood, and other social contextual factors, is strongly linked to ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  over eating 
B)  exercise 
C)  sound sleep 
D)  peak athletic performance

Question 7

The concept of "habitus" was coined by ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Anthony Giddens 
B)  Émile Durkheim 
C)  Roberto Unger 
D)  Pierre Bourdieu

Question 8

Jenna is a public health worker who is interested in reducing smoking in population. She is in the process of designing the anti-smoking campaign. The following campaign will be most successful: ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  A campaign that focuses on facts (e.g. statistics, information) and targets people who want to quit smoking 
B)  A campaign that focuses on facts (e.g. statistics, information) and targets people who do not want to quit smoking 
C)  A campaign that focuses on feelings and perceptions (e.g. visual advertisement, pictures of people who were harmed by smoking) and targets people who want to quit smoking 
D)  A campaign that introduces monetary incentives and targets people who do not want to quit smoking

Question 9

Some people suggest that, in order to improve population health, we need to provide more information about healthy options and better educate people about healthy behaviours. Do you agree or disagree with this approach? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

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Question 10

A lifestyle is best understood as ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  a person's choices about how she or he wants to live her or his life 
B)  an integrated set of practices embraced to establish personal identity 
C)  a reflection of fashion, fads, and social trends 
D)  the patterns of preferences a person develops over the life course

Question 11

Enculturing the brain refers to the idea that ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  brains should be cultured to study human development 
B)  labs are the best environment to study human brains and human behaviour 
C)  history and other forms of socially patterned practice become encoded in the brains of people participating in each particular social formation 
D)  agency and structure are interrelated

Question 12

Using specific examples, demonstrate what is problematic about assuming that our actions are guided by "rational" choices?

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Question 13

By embracing the idea of ________, we recognize that information available to individuals, the content of their beliefs, and their actions may be modified by exogenous variables.

Accepted Answer

A)  rational behaviour 
B)  health belief 
C)  social influence 
D)  social patterns

Question 14

Enstructuration refers to the availability of health-relevant resources built into neighbourhoods, (such as availability of walking spaces, parks, and clean air).

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Factors that contributed to the comeback of healthy lifestyles rhetoric in the 1970s in North America include all the following EXCEPT ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  recognition of the rising importance of chronic diseases 
B)  demedicalization of social problems and less reliance on conventional and alternative medicine 
C)  diminishing faith in medicine to solve health-related problems 
D)  a strengthening cultural link between consumption patterns and who we are

Question 16

Describe the history and the evolution of our understanding of "healthy lifestyle." Using specific examples, explain the usefulness of this approach to population health policy.

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Question 17

People are easily motivated to change their behaviour when offered monetary incentives.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Health relevant behaviour is best understood as ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  choices the person freely makes 
B)  choices the person makes under a set of influences and constraints 
C)  patterns of action and responses to context 
D)  determined by the person's past and current circumstances

Exam 14: Social Patterning of Behaviour

The idea of a healthy lifestyle arose in the fifteenth century in China.

The strongest predictor for smoking/non-smoking is ________.

What is "nudging"? How useful is this strategy for improving population health?

A methodologically individualist approach to health assumes free will-a capacity of the person to choose behaviours.

Behaviourist interventions using reminders, nudges, and rewards are ________.

Stress, both during childhood and later in life due to workplace, neighbourhood, and other social contextual factors, is strongly linked to ________.

The concept of "habitus" was coined by ________.

Jenna is a public health worker who is interested in reducing smoking in population. She is in the process of designing the anti-smoking campaign. The following campaign will be most successful: ________.

Some people suggest that, in order to improve population health, we need to provide more information about healthy options and better educate people about healthy behaviours. Do you agree or disagree with this approach? Why or why not?

A lifestyle is best understood as ________.

Enculturing the brain refers to the idea that ________.

Using specific examples, demonstrate what is problematic about assuming that our actions are guided by "rational" choices?

By embracing the idea of ________, we recognize that information available to individuals, the content of their beliefs, and their actions may be modified by exogenous variables.

Enstructuration refers to the availability of health-relevant resources built into neighbourhoods, (such as availability of walking spaces, parks, and clean air).

Factors that contributed to the comeback of healthy lifestyles rhetoric in the 1970s in North America include all the following EXCEPT ________.

Describe the history and the evolution of our understanding of "healthy lifestyle." Using specific examples, explain the usefulness of this approach to population health policy.

People are easily motivated to change their behaviour when offered monetary incentives.

Health relevant behaviour is best understood as ________.