EXHS-115 Kline Health Compromising Behaviors Review

People who respond to stress usually consume more _____.

Low-calorie and salty foods

High-calorie and salty foods

High-calorie and sugary foods

Low-calorie and sugary foods

Smoking among habitual smokers helps _____.

Reduce the ability to screen out irrelevant stimuli

Increase anxiety

Improve psychomotor performance

Reduce alertness

Moving people with a smoking problem from the contemplation to the action phase requires _____.

Development of implementation intentions to quit

Emphasizing the adverse health consequences of smoking

Focus on changing attitudes

Emphasizing the negative social attitudes that most people hold about smoking

The beneficial effects of moderate alcohol consumption are especially true during _____.

Preadolescence

Old age

Young adulthood

Adolescence

Habitual smokers who stop smoking state that their _____.

Psychomotor performance has improved

Anxiety has reduced

Memory has improved

Concentration has reduced

Identify a true statement about anorexics

Anorexics exhibit non-perfectionist behavior.

Body image distortions are not too common among anorexic girls.

Girls who are anorexic see themselves as underweight even when their weight is optimum.

Anorexics may experience a lack of control coupled with a need for approval.

Moving smokers to the action phase employs many of the _____.

Social engineering techniques

Lifestyle rebalancing techniques

Applied behavioral techniques

Cognitive-behavioral techniques

Modest alcohol consumption reduces the risk of _____.

Immune-related disorders

Nervous system disorders

Endocrine diseases

Coronary heart diseases

Identify a true statement about the set point theory of weight.

The theory argues that efforts to lose weight may be compensated for by adjustments in energy expenditure.

Most people have similar set points.

People with low set points are more likely to be obese.

According to the theory, a person continues to eat by desire even after his or her weight reaches the ideal point.

Most weight-loss programs begin with a(n) _____.

Exercise program

Surgery

Dietary treatment

Stress management intervention

_____ approaches are required to complement formal intervention efforts for alcoholics and problem drinkers as almost 85 percent of them do not receive formal treatment.

Lifetsyle rebalancing

Cognitive restructuring

Stress management

Social engineering

The idea that each individual has an ideal biological weight, which cannot be greatly modified is known as the _____.

External cue theory

Set point theory of weight

Fat cell limit theory

Theory of thermogenesis

Identify the methods emphasized by social influence programs for young adolescents. (Check all that apply.)

Coping methods to deal with high-risk situations

Groupthink techniques

Promoting dysfunctional monologues

Drink-refusal techniques

With increased media attention to the problem of drunk driving, drinkers seem to be developing _____ techniques to avoid driving while drunk.

Self-reinforcement

Self-talk

Self-regulatory

Self-observation

Identify the type of diet that has proved to be the best in helping people lose weight initially.

High cis-fat diets

High-protein diets

Very low-carbohydrate diets

Very low-omega fatty acid diets

EXHS-115 Kline Health Compromising Behaviors Review

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