Chapter 09: Practice Questions

Which of these is the first stage of Selye's general adaptation syndrome (GAS)?

alarm

Which of the following characterizes people who experience phantom limb pain?

They can describe the exact location and type of pain.

Firmin sometimes experiences severe chest pain that radiates out and can even occur when Firmin isat rest. This is most consistent with which of the following?

angina pectoris

Some of the HIV/AIDS risk factors are the same for men and women while others are different. Which of these is a risk factor that occurs more often in women than in men?

becoming prostitutes in response to economic deprivation

Comprehensive stress management begins with which of the following?

identification of stressors

"AIDS, a disease of the immune system, is directly affected by stress, which may promote the deadly progression of the disease." What does this illustrate?

psychological factors influencing biological processes

Clinical studies indicate that combining which of the following with biofeedback can be particularly effective in reducing pain?

relaxation procedures

Regarding the age ranges for the highest risk of HIV/AIDS, which of the following statements is accurate?

For women, the highest risk is between 15 and 25.

One of the most successful efforts to reduce risk factors for a medical condition involved three entire communities in California in which residents received different types of interventions or no intervention at all (for the community that served as the control group). What was the targeted condition?

heart disease

Essential hypertension refers to which of the following?

hypertension with no identifiable physical cause

According to Holroyd et al., (1984) biofeedback may decrease pain because it does which of the following?

instills a sense of control over the pain

In the mid-19th century, symptoms of fatigue, vague aches and pains, low-grade fever, and lack ofenergy were attributed to a disorder called which of the following?

neurasthenia

AIDS is now treated with new combinations of drugs called "highly active antiretroviral therapy"(HAART), which does which of the following?

suppresses the virus in people who are HIV positive

What are the cells of the humoral immune system that produce immunoglobulins called?

B cells

Steven and Diane, two young adults who live in different cities and do not know each other, have learned recently that they are HIV positive following sexual intercourse with infected partners. What changes in their behavior are most likely to occur in the future?

Both Steven and Diane will continue to have unprotected sex.