PSYC 2301 HEALTH PSYC MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Health psychology - Answers - Devoted to understanding psychological influences on
how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get
ill
Health - Answers - The World Health Organization defined ______________ as "a
complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity"
1) to give worldwide guidance in the field of health
2) to set global standards for health
3) to cooperate with governments in strengthening
national health programs
4) to develop and transfer appropriate health
technology, information and standards - Answers - The WHO (World Health
Organization) has 4 main functions. These are?
1) Health promotion and maintenance
2) Prevention and treatment of illness
3) Etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction
4) Impact of health professionals on people's behaviour and develop recommendations
for improving health care - Answers - Health psychologists focus on?
Etiology - Answers - Refers to the origins or causes of illness
A unit; disease arose when evil spirits entered the body and that these spirits could be
exorcied through through the treatment process. They employed trephination, where
they drilled small holes in the person's skill, believing that the evil spirits would leave the
body while the "physician", or shaman, performed the treatment ritual - Answers - In the
earliest times, it was believed that the mind and body were considered what? (also list
how they would deal with illness)
Humoral theory of illness; disease arises when the four circulating fluids of the body -
blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm - are out of balance. The function of treatment
is to restore balance among the humours. Specific personality types were believed to be
associated with bodily temperaments in which one of the 4 humours predominated -
Answers - The Greeks introduced what theory to the mind-body relationship in health?
Supernatural explanations of illness. Mysticism and demonology dominated concepts of
disease, which were seen as God's punishment for evildoing. The Church was the
guardian of medical knowledge; as a result, medical practice took on religious
undertones, including religiously based but unscientific generalizations about the body
, and the mind-body relationship. - Answers - In the middle ages, what theory to the
mind-body relationship was prevalent in health?
Decartes' mind-body dualism perspective takes hold; humoral theory is rejected and the
focus shifts to mechanistic and reductionistic views of the body that focuses on organic
and cellular changes. The physicians became the guardians of the body while
philosophers and theologians became the caretakers of the mind. As physicians
focused primarily on organic and cellular changes and pathology as a basis for their
medical inferences, physical evidence became the sole basis for diagnosis and
treatment of illness - Answers - During the Renaissance era, what theory of the mind-
body relationship was introduced?
Conversion hysteria - Answers - According to Freud, specific unconscious conflicts can
produce particular physical disturbances that symbolize the repressed psychological
conflicts. The patient converts the conflict into a symptom via the voluntary nervous
system; they then become relatively free of the anxiety the conflict would otherwise
produce.
Psychosomatic - Answers - Disorders are believed to be ___________________ in
origin when they are caused by emotional conflicts such as ulcers, hyperthyroidism,
rheumatoid arthritis, essential hypertension, colitis, and bronchial asthma.
The onset of disease requires the interaction of a variety of factors; these factors
include a possible genetic weakness in the organism, the presence of environmental
stressors, early and current ongoing learning experiences and conflicts, and individual
cognitions and coping efforts - Answers - Researchers now believe that a particular
conflict or personality type is not sufficient to produce illness. Rather, the onset of
disease requires what?
Behavioural medicine - Answers - _______________ developed, in part, to address this
need by focusing on objective and clinically relevant interventions that would
demonstrate the connections between body and mind suggested by psychosomatic
medicine
Behavioural medicine - Answers - This is considered the interdisciplinary field
concerned with integrating behavioural science and biomedical science for
understanding physical health and illness and for developing and applying knowledge
and techniques to prevent, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate
inextricably interwoven with the psychological and social environment: All conditions of
health and illness, not just the diseases identified by the early psychosomatic theorists,
are influenced by psychological and social factors - Answers - It is now known that
physical health is what
ANSWERS
Health psychology - Answers - Devoted to understanding psychological influences on
how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get
ill
Health - Answers - The World Health Organization defined ______________ as "a
complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity"
1) to give worldwide guidance in the field of health
2) to set global standards for health
3) to cooperate with governments in strengthening
national health programs
4) to develop and transfer appropriate health
technology, information and standards - Answers - The WHO (World Health
Organization) has 4 main functions. These are?
1) Health promotion and maintenance
2) Prevention and treatment of illness
3) Etiology and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction
4) Impact of health professionals on people's behaviour and develop recommendations
for improving health care - Answers - Health psychologists focus on?
Etiology - Answers - Refers to the origins or causes of illness
A unit; disease arose when evil spirits entered the body and that these spirits could be
exorcied through through the treatment process. They employed trephination, where
they drilled small holes in the person's skill, believing that the evil spirits would leave the
body while the "physician", or shaman, performed the treatment ritual - Answers - In the
earliest times, it was believed that the mind and body were considered what? (also list
how they would deal with illness)
Humoral theory of illness; disease arises when the four circulating fluids of the body -
blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm - are out of balance. The function of treatment
is to restore balance among the humours. Specific personality types were believed to be
associated with bodily temperaments in which one of the 4 humours predominated -
Answers - The Greeks introduced what theory to the mind-body relationship in health?
Supernatural explanations of illness. Mysticism and demonology dominated concepts of
disease, which were seen as God's punishment for evildoing. The Church was the
guardian of medical knowledge; as a result, medical practice took on religious
undertones, including religiously based but unscientific generalizations about the body
, and the mind-body relationship. - Answers - In the middle ages, what theory to the
mind-body relationship was prevalent in health?
Decartes' mind-body dualism perspective takes hold; humoral theory is rejected and the
focus shifts to mechanistic and reductionistic views of the body that focuses on organic
and cellular changes. The physicians became the guardians of the body while
philosophers and theologians became the caretakers of the mind. As physicians
focused primarily on organic and cellular changes and pathology as a basis for their
medical inferences, physical evidence became the sole basis for diagnosis and
treatment of illness - Answers - During the Renaissance era, what theory of the mind-
body relationship was introduced?
Conversion hysteria - Answers - According to Freud, specific unconscious conflicts can
produce particular physical disturbances that symbolize the repressed psychological
conflicts. The patient converts the conflict into a symptom via the voluntary nervous
system; they then become relatively free of the anxiety the conflict would otherwise
produce.
Psychosomatic - Answers - Disorders are believed to be ___________________ in
origin when they are caused by emotional conflicts such as ulcers, hyperthyroidism,
rheumatoid arthritis, essential hypertension, colitis, and bronchial asthma.
The onset of disease requires the interaction of a variety of factors; these factors
include a possible genetic weakness in the organism, the presence of environmental
stressors, early and current ongoing learning experiences and conflicts, and individual
cognitions and coping efforts - Answers - Researchers now believe that a particular
conflict or personality type is not sufficient to produce illness. Rather, the onset of
disease requires what?
Behavioural medicine - Answers - _______________ developed, in part, to address this
need by focusing on objective and clinically relevant interventions that would
demonstrate the connections between body and mind suggested by psychosomatic
medicine
Behavioural medicine - Answers - This is considered the interdisciplinary field
concerned with integrating behavioural science and biomedical science for
understanding physical health and illness and for developing and applying knowledge
and techniques to prevent, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate
inextricably interwoven with the psychological and social environment: All conditions of
health and illness, not just the diseases identified by the early psychosomatic theorists,
are influenced by psychological and social factors - Answers - It is now known that
physical health is what
