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1
Which one of these individual differences in personality is NOT stable over time?
A)hypochonrdrical tendencies
B)neurotic, anxious, and self-conscious behaviors
C)self-evaluating and self-focused on bodily functions
D)self diagnosing aches and pains when working on a boring job
2
Medical students' disease is
A)a disease that only occurs to medical students because they are around sick people all day.
B)can occur in anyone who studies about illnesses because all that studying makes everyone ill.
C)believing that you might have the symptoms of each disease that one studies.
D)luckily not highly contagious.
3
As a health psychologist who understands individual personality differences, you would be wise to maximize your time by assuming that
A)once you've seen an individual, you do not need to go back over their history to help them.
B)if you know their cultural background, you have a fairly good idea about the health issues.
C)most people are ill if they come to see you.
D)no assumptions are the best. and that you may need to take time to gather more information
4
Which of the following will predict that an individual will usually seek health care?
A)symptoms pertaining to face and eyes
B)other people telling them to seek health care
C)pain producing symptoms
D)a and c
E)all of the above
5
Lay referral network is
A)an informal group of family and friends who offer advice about symptoms and treatments and have no real connection to the medical community.
B)like folk medicine and is losing influence in the US.
C)a group of social workers who study the effectiveness of home remedies.
D)important for a health psychologist to be cognizant of and ask about when recommending treatment strategies to a patient.
6
Who uses health services the most?
A)very young and very old
B)very young and adolescents
C)very old and dying
D)adolescents and middle aged
7
Which are possible explanations for why women use health care more often than men?
A)Women are sick more often and cannot tolerate pain as well as men.
B)Women become pregnant and have babies and these account for significant medical use differences.
C)Women are more likely to have health insurance than men.
D)Women do not use health care more than men.
8
Who is most likely to delay medical treatment?
A)someone who is extremely busy and preoccupied
B)someone who doesn't think the symptom is serious
C)someone who doesn't have the money for treatment
D)all of the above
9
Burnout among health care professionals occurs
A)to individual health care providers, but have no real consequences for institutions.
B)from exposure to stress that results in emotional exhaustion, cynical attitudes, and feelings of worthlessness or powerlessness.
C)almost exclusively to personnel who work with terminally ill patients.
D)mainly to health care providers who care about their patients.
10
Burnout
A)is a psychological illness with no real physiological component.
B)has been tied to reduced cortisol levels and reduced immune efficiency.
C)has been tied to elevated cortisol levels and immune function changes.
D)has been found among physicians and nurses that work in hospital settings, but is not as prevalent in clinic settings.





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