Quiz #1

Question 1

How is health psych defined?

Answer 1

field devoted to understanding psycho influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they get ill

Question 2

what is considered psychological influences?

Answer 2

very broad term can be social, cog

ex: social pressure on health: I have to be super fit to support the soccer team.

Question 3

how is health defined

Answer 3

a compelete state of psychical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 4

what are some focuses of health psychologist (4)

Answer 4

-health promotion and maintenance
-prevention and treatment of illness
-etiology
-health care system and health policy

Question 5

health promotion and maintenance: 2

Answer 5

health eeating
exercise

Question 6

prevention and treatment of illness: 2

Answer 6

managing stress
-prevention: getting screening cholesterol check

Question 7

etiology; DEF

Answer 7

cause of diseases

Question 8

how does etiology relate to psych?

Answer 8

depression can be a link factor to heart disease

Question 9

Health Care system and healthy policy

Answer 9

food plate: how to visually see plate

Question 10

Mind body relationship history:

Answer 10

-use to think evil spirit bad blood
-freud contributions
-psychosomatic: illness’s where its origin is psychological in nature like (stress can bring cancer)

Question 11

what does bio-psycho-social model represent

Answer 11

bio-body
psycho-mind
social-social envio

Question 12

bio-psycho-social model

Answer 12

health is impacted by all three

Question 13

advantages of bio-psycho-social (4)

Answer 13

1. there are other factors that can prevent illness
   micro (biological component) Macro (social, psychological) Ex: skin cancer (micro) sunscreen (macro)
2. Mind-body cannot be separated. EX: did not suffer from heart burn but now that kids drive now im so stressed I get heart burn.
3. health becomes something to achieve.
4. all link to one another.

Question 14

Clinical implications of the biopsychosocial model (3)

Answer 14

1. diagnosis can occur at all times EX: even though patient is not under stress should talk to them about stress
2. treatment at all level
3. patient -provider relationship

Question 15

VS. Biomedical Model

Answer 15

social and psychological are irrrelavent to illness and instead it is explained by bodily symptoms

Question 16

biomedical problems: 3

Answer 16

1. reductionistic (says there is only one cause)
2. mind-body don’t impact each other.

Question 17

why do we need health psychologists? 4

Answer 17

-advances in tech/rs
-expanded health care services
-increased medical acceptance

Question 18

change patterns of illness: 2

Answer 18

acute: short term illness
chronic: longer than 6 months illness

need H.P to help cope with these illness

Question 19

advances in tech

Answer 19

more tech means better able to rs genetic disorders and live longer

-health services because you can go to the doctor

Question 20

what does theory focus on?

Answer 20

focus on practical problems - applied field

Question 21

theory def:

Answer 21

set of analytical statements explained as a set of phenomena such as why people practice poor health

Question 22

what should theories be able to do 2

Answer 22

-helo dvd hypo
-provide guidelines for how to do rs on an intervention

Question 23

experiments allow

Answer 23

to show causation

Question 24

how to do an experiment

Answer 24

create 2/more condition that differ from each other in exact ways

iv dv

Question 25

correlational studies:

probelm

Answer 25

don’t show causation just showing 2 variables are related

survey- aren’t always truthful

Question 26

Prospective designs

Answer 26

longitudinal measuring and go in to the future ex: measuring sleep and seeing how much they catch colds

Question 27

retrospective designs

problem

Answer 27

looking in to the past EX: did you smoke

people can remember

Question 28

epidemiology: def

Answer 28

how fast infectious/non-infec spead and how wide they spread

Question 29

how is epidioomology measured

Answer 29

how many people they infect

Question 30

Morbidity:

Answer 30

number of cases that exists in point in time

Question 31

incidence:

Answer 31

of new cases per day

Question 32

relative risk

Answer 32

risk to individual to acquiring diseases

Question 33

mortality

Answer 33

of death to illness

Question 34

proximal:

Answer 34

precipitating: what actually caused it

Question 35

dital

Answer 35

pre-deposing cause

exposed to virus (proximal) - stress (distal)