Chapter 6: Injury and Injury Prevention

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. About ______ people die in each day in the United States from car accidents. ______ of these deaths could be prevented.

A. 50; Few

B. 50; Many

C. 90; Few

D. 90; Many

Learning Objective: 6-1: Describe different types and consequences of injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Types of Injury

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Unintentional injuries do NOT include ______.

A. poisonings

B. homicides

C. falls

D. drownings

Learning Objective: 6-1: Describe different types and consequences of injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Injury

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Approximately 1 in ______ high school athletes experiences a concussion at some point.

A. 10

B. 8

C. 5

D. 4

Learning Objective: 6-1: Describe different types and consequences of injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Consequences of Injuries

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. A recent examination of the brains of former National Football League players revealed that ______ showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

A. some

B. about half

C. most

D. almost all

Learning Objective: 6-1: Describe different types and consequences of injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Consequences of Injuries

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Ava is 6. If she were to die in the next year due to an unintentional injury, the MOST likely cause would be ______.

A. a fire or burns

B. a car accident

C. drowning

D. suffocation

Learning Objective: 6-2: Compare the risk of injury across the lifespan.

health outcomes.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Infancy and Childhood

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Suicide has surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death among children aged 10–14. This change reflects ______.

A. only an increase in suicides among this age group

B. only a decrease in car accident fatalities among this age group

C. not only a decrease in car accident fatalities among this age group, but also an increase in suicides

D. an overall increase in the death rate among children aged 10–14

Learning Objective: 6-2: Compare the risk of injury across the lifespan.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Infancy and Childhood

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Injuries are responsible for nearly ______ of the deaths of adolescents and young adults.

A. one-third

B. one-half

C. two-thirds

D. three-quarters

Learning Objective: 6-2: Compare the risk of injury across the lifespan.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Which choice correctly pairs a period of the adult lifespan with the three leading causes of injury-related deaths, in order?

A. middle-adulthood--falls, car accidents, suicides

B. middle-adulthood--poisoning, car accidents, suicides

C. early adulthood--falls, car accidents, suicides

D. older adulthood--poisoning, car accidents, homicides

Learning Objective: 6-2: Compare the risk of injury across the lifespan.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Adulthood and Older Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. Relative to other causes of death, unintentional injuries ______ in rank across the adult lifespan.

A. decrease

B. decrease, then increase

C. increase

D. remain constant

Learning Objective: 6-2: Compare the risk of injury across the lifespan.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Adulthood and Older Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Abby tries to encourage her elderly mother to get at least a little exercise. Abby is worried that her mother’s sedentary lifestyle might increase her mother’s risk of ______, the leading cause of injury-related deaths among older adults.

A. being struck by something

B. poisoning

C. falls

D. overexertion

Learning Objective: 6-2: Compare the risk of injury across the lifespan.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Adulthood and Older Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. A graph relating the likelihood of an injury from a fall to age from 0 to 90 should show a ______.

A. horizontal line

B. negatively sloped diagonal line

C. positively sloped diagonal line

D. U-shaped function

Learning Objective: 6-3: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for unintentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Falls

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Which statement BEST expresses recent historical trends in the leading cause of injury-related death in the United States?

A. Drug overdoses were the leading cause of injury-related death in the United States for many years, but car accidents have now overtaken them.

B. Drug overdoses have remained the leading cause of injury-related death in the United Staes for many years.

C. Car accidents were the leading cause of injury-related death in the United States for many years, but drug overdoses have now overtaken them.

D. Car accidents have remained the leading cause of injury-related death in the United Staes for many years.

Learning Objective: 6-3: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for unintentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Common Causes of Unintentional Injury

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. People who text while driving make as many driving errors as do people with a blood alcohol content of ______.

A. .02

B. .05

C. .07

D. .10

Learning Objective: 6-3: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for unintentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Religion/Spirituality–Health Link

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. All else being equal, which individual is LEAST likely to experience an unintentional injury?

A. Jackie, who scores high on measures of neuroticism

B. Mel, who scores high on measures of impulsivity

C. Priti, who scores high on measures of sensation-seeking

D. Caryllis, who scores high on measures of hostility

Learning Objective: 6-3: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for unintentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Personality Traits

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. ______ drivers engage in riskier driving when they are in the presence of friends than when they are alone.

A. Adolescent, but not adult

B. Adult, but not adolescent

C. Both adolescent and adult

D. Neither adolescent nor adult

Learning Objective: 6-3: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for unintentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Social Influence

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Among a sample of low-SES mothers with young children, a health psychologist should expect a ______ correlation between the mothers’ Social Readjustment Rating Scale scores and the number of injuries their children sustain.

A. minimal

B. negative

C. positive

D. perfect

Learning Objective: 6-3: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for unintentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Poverty

Difficulty Level: Hard

17. As compared to women, men are ______ likely to attempt suicide and ______ likely to die from it.

A. less; less

B. less; more

C. more; less

D. more; more

Learning Objective: 6-4: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for intentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Suicide

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Studies of high school and college students suggest that about ______ of adolescents and emerging adults engage in nonsuicidal self-injury, such as cutting.

A. 5%

B. 10%

C. 15%

D. 20%

Learning Objective: 6-4: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for intentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. The risk of being a victim of homicide ______ across the lifespan.

A. decreases

B. increases

C. increases, then decreases

D. remains constant

Learning Objective: 6-4: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for intentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Homicide and Assault

Difficulty Level: Hard

20. Brett witnessed violence between his parents many times growing up. Longitudinal data suggest that Brett may be ______ times as likely to commit violence toward his own partner than he would have been had he grown up in a nonviolent home.

A. 1.5

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

Learning Objective: 6-4: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for intentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Social Influence

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. The term social ______ is used to describe how exposure to suicide or suicidal behavior in one’s family, peer group, or through the media may result in an increase in suicide attempts.

A. contagion

B. reactivity

C. facilitation

D. modeling

Learning Objective: 6-4: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for intentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Influence

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. With respect to strategies for preventing illness, changing behavior is to changing environment as ______ strategies are to ______ strategies.

A. active; passive

B. passive; active

C. primary; secondary

D. secondary; primary

Learning Objective: 6-5: Describe strategies for preventing injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Strategies for Preventing Injuries

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Scott and Jacquie volunteer with the Red Cross. Today, they are assisting a local fire department by installing free smoke detectors in homes in a low-income neighborhood to prevent fire fatalities. This is an example of a(n) ______ strategy to prevent injuries.

A. active

B. passive

C. primary

D. secondary

Learning Objective: 6-5: Describe strategies for preventing injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Strategies for Preventing Injuries

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. The textbook notes that preventing deaths by ______ is one of the BEST illustrations of the value of providing skills training.

A. falls

B. drowning

C. creating legislation

D. fires

Learning Objective: 6-5: Describe strategies for preventing injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Skills Training

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. According to the text, as many as ______ of the 1,300 people who die each year as a result of injuries sustained while riding a bicycle might have lived had they been wearing a helmet.

A. 50%

B. 65%

C. 75%

D. 90%

Learning Objective: 6-5: Describe strategies for preventing injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Helmet Use

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death until age 44.

Learning Objective: 6-1: Describe different types and consequences of injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Types of Injury

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The causes of injury-related deaths vary across the lifespan.

Learning Objective: 6-2: Compare the risk of injury across the lifespan.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Infancy and Childhood

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. All else being equal, an injury-related death in young or middle-aged adult is MOST likely the result of a drug overdose.

Learning Objective: 6-2: Compare the risk of injury across the lifespan.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Adulthood and Older Adulthood

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Adolescent drivers high in conscientiousness may be MORE likely to drive while texting or speaking on a cell phone.

Learning Objective: 6-3: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for unintentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Personality Traits

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Alcohol is involved in over one-half of the traffic-related deaths in the United States.

Learning Objective: 6-3: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for unintentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Substance Abuse

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Most cases of child abuse involve sexual abuse.

Learning Objective: 6-4: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for intentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Child Abuse and Neglect

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. People living in a house where a firearm is kept are 5 times more likely to die by suicide than are people living in gun-free homes.

Learning Objective: 6-4: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for intentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Access to Firearms

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. “Common-sense” gun laws are largely ineffective at preventing firearm-related deaths.

Learning Objective: 6-5: Describe strategies for preventing injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Gun Control

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. The text notes that car accidents are the largest cause of unintentional injury deaths for people aged 5–24. Consider the risk factors for unintentional injury deaths. What advice might you give a class of high school sophomores to reduce the likelihood that they “become a statistic” when they begin driving?

Learning Objective: 6-3: Summarize the causes of and risk factors for unintentional injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Car Accidents

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Marcie volunteers with an organization advocating for “common-sense” gun laws, such as mandatory background checks for all gun purchases. Making reference to suicides, homicides, and intimate partner violence, outline some of the “talking points” Marcie might include in a presentation to her Members of Congress to urge them to support reasonable gun control legislation.

Learning Objective: 6-5: Describe strategies for preventing injuries.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Gun Control

Difficulty Level: Medium