Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following is not a dimension of common sense illness perception?
- identity
- consequence
- cause
- side effect
Complete the sentences using the options that follow.
Murray and McMillan (1993) asked a sample of over 700 adults to rate the relative importance of 24 potential causes of cancer. Factor analysis of their ratings revealed five (2) ______ that were labelled: (3) ______ (which contained items referring to stress, worry, loneliness, unemployment); (4) ______ (including such items as air pollution, work conditions, asbestos, nuclear radiation, a knock or hurt, X-rays and promiscuity); health-related (such (5) ______ as childbirth, antibiotics, breast-feeding, virus or infection); (6) ______ (fatty foods, smoking, drinking).
2. Pick the best option.
- stress
- environment
- behaviours
- factors
3. Pick the best option.
- stress
- environment
- behaviours
- factors
4. Pick the best option.
- stress
- environment
- behaviours
- factors
5. Pick the best option.
- stress
- environment
- behaviours
- factors
6. Pick the best option.
- stress
- environment
- behaviours
- factors
7. The common sense model of illness has attracted which of the following criticisms?
- positivist epistemological assumptions
- neglect of social and cultural factors
- limitations of using standardised instruments
- all of these
8. Research on social meanings using IPA has used which of the following data sources?
- semi-structured face-to-face interviews
- e-mail interviews
- posts made on an internet forum
- all of these
9. Which of the following psychologists has not published papers on narrative psychology?
- Frank
- Murray
- Sarbin
- Marks
Complete the sentences using the options that follow.
Frank (1995) developed a three-part typology of illness narratives: (10) ______: the participant minimizes the experience of illness, rather considering it a temporary interruption that will be overcome; (11) ______: the ill person loses a sense of order in their life and is unable to develop a way of dealing with the illness experience; (12) ______: the illness is a (13) ______ to be met.
10. Pick the best option.
- challenge narrative
- restitution narrative
- chaos narrative
- quest narrative
11. Pick the best option.
- challenge narrative
- restitution narrative
- chaos narrative
- quest narrative
12. Pick the best option.
- challenge narrative
- restitution narrative
- chaos narrative
- *d. quest narrative
13. Pick the best option.
- challenge narrative
- restitution narrative
- chaos narrative
- quest narrative
14. Radley and Billig (1996) stated that ‘the healthy have much to say about their illness experience, while the sick are often at pains to show their ______’.
- health
- *b. normality
- symptoms
- courage
