Deck 1: What Is Health

Question 1

Hippocrates described four bodily humours thought to influence health and illness status. These were

A) Yellow bile, sweat, blood, and black bile.
B) Green bile, phlegm, bone marrow and black bile.
C) Yellow bile, phlegm, blood and black bile.
D) Yellow bile, phlegm, blood and green bile.

Answer 1

Yellow bile, phlegm, blood and black bile.

Question 2

Descartes (1664) proposed that the mind and body were two separate entities, which interact. The link was thought to be the:

A) Adrenal gland
B) Pituitary gland
C) Pineal gland
D) Lymph system

Answer 2

Pineal gland

Question 3

Trepanation involves:

A) Ritual cutting of the body to allow evil spirits to leave an ailing body
B) Drilling a hole in skulls to allow evil spirits to leave an ailing body.
C) Holy men chanting to allow evil spirits to leave an ailing body.
D) None of the above

Answer 3

Drilling a hole in skulls to allow evil spirits to leave an ailing body.

Question 4

Descartes is best known for his concept of

A) Mind-body integration
B) Mind-body dualism
C) Mind-body synergy
D) Mind-body synthesis

Question 5

The biopsychosocial model

A) Emphasises the interaction between biological processes and social influences on health.Mind-body dualism
B) Emphasises the interaction between biological processes and psychological influences on health.
C) Emphasises the interaction between biological processes, social, cultural, and psychological influences on health.
D) Suggests that disease is the result of social and psychological factors.

Question 6

Freud re-defined the mind body split as one of _______

A) Consciousness
B) Developmental staging
C) Instinctual drives
D) Id versus Ego

Question 7

People with a collectivist view of health

A) Are more likely to engage in social actions to influence health than personal actions.
B) Consider that health targets should be determined by the general population.
C) Deny the role of the individual in determining health.
D) All of the above

Question 8

The life expectancy for a non-Indigenous female child born in 2014 in Australia is 85.2. This compares with _______ for an Indigenous female born in Australia

A) 80.3 years
B) 73.7 years
C) 69 years
D) 86 years

Question 9

Piaget proposed the sensorimotor stage in cognitive development at what age?

A) Birth - 2 years
B) 2 - 7 years
C) 7 - 11 years
D) 12 - adulthood

Question 10

Which of the following are common in the top 10 leading causes of death for both non- Indigenous and Aboriginal Australians?

A) Cirrhosis and liver disease
B) Suicide
C) Blood and lymph cancer
D) Ischaemic heart disease

Question 11

One of the ways Herzlich (1973) constructed health as is:

A) Seeming - not seeming ill.
B) Active - health as an active positive resource.
C) Knowing - health as physical fitness.
D) Being - not being ill.

Question 12

According to Bibace and Walsh (1980), which of the following is not a characteristic of children's thinking about health in the pre-operational stage?

A) Incomprehension
B) Phenomenonism
C) Contagion
D) All are representative of the pre-operational stage.

Question 13

Bowling and Iliffe (2006) found that the quality of life was associated with the degree to which one aligned oneself with a particular model of ageing. Which model was associated with the highest quality of life?

A) Social Functioning Model
B) Psychological Resources Model
C) Biomedical Model
D) Lay Model

Question 14

What categories of health did Normandeau et al. (1998) not find in their sample of children aged between 4 and 5 years?

A) Environment
B) Death
C) Activity
D) Participation

Question 15

According to Matarazzo (1982), what are the main goals of health psychology?

A) Develop our understanding of biopsychosocial factors involved in the promotion and maintenance of health
B) Improve healthcare systems and health policy
C) The prevention and treatment of illness
D) All of the above

Question 16

Health psychologists do not attempt to develop the understanding of:

A) Health promotion and maintenance
B) Prevention and treatment of illness
C) The progression of disease at a cellular level
D) Factors that influence our vulnerability to disease

Question 17

Behavioural medicine is

A) An interdisciplinary field drawing on a range of behavioural sciences in relation to medical conditions.
B) An offshoot of health psychology.
C) Medical practitioners' involvement in health psychology.
D) The practice of behaviour therapy in medical settings

Question 18

Broadly speaking, critical health psychology suggests that

A) Interventions based on health psychology theory are likely to be ineffective
B) Health psychology should be more experimental in its approach to the study of health
C) Health psychology should be more closely linked to disease
D) Health psychology is too individualistic in its focus, at the expense of the social

Question 19

In an ageing society disability is common; according to Woods (2008) what percentage of people may experience a chronic condition?

A) 25
B) 45
C) 65
D) 85

Question 20

Which of the following is not a part of The World Health Organisation (WHO; 1947) definition of health:

A) Physical wellbeing
B) Mental wellbeing
C) Social wellbeing
D) Emotional health