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BBH 101 Exam 1 (PSU) questions with answers 2024
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BBH 101 Exam 1 (PSU) questions withanswers 2024
trepanation - ANSWER: ➡ surgical procedure in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the
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human skull
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humoral theory - ANSWER: ➡ belief that certain liquids in the body must be in balance
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cholera - ANSWER: ➡ disease that causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, which can lead to
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dehydration, shock, and death
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Reductionism - ANSWER: ➡ an approach to science based on the philosophy that we can j j jj j j j j j j j j j j j
understand a more complex system by first understanding the individual components of that
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system
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John Snow - ANSWER: ➡ studied patterns of cholera outbreak in London and identified a public
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water pump as the source
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Semmelweis - ANSWER: ➡ discovered that childbed fever was caused by doctors not washing
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their hands
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Cell Theory - ANSWER: ➡ organisms are made up of cells
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Louis Pasteur - ANSWER: ➡ examined porridge by leaving one container open and the other
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sealed; the one unsealed grew mold
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Edward Jenner - ANSWER: ➡ developed the 1st vaccine from theory that cowpox prevents
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smallpox; exposed a little boy to the vaccine then to smallpox and he did not get smallpox
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, Alexander Flemming - ANSWER: ➡ discovered antibacterial effects of penicillin
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Biomedical Model - ANSWER: ➡ suggests that illness always has a biological cause
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Biobehavioral Perspective - ANSWER: ➡ recognizes biological, psychological, and j j j jj j j j j
sociocultural focuses in determining an individual's health and vulnerability to disease
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Framingham Heart Study - ANSWER: ➡ used the biobehavioral perspective to study risk factors
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of cardiovascular disease; helped us understand that smoking, cholesterol, blood pressure,
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obesity, etc can cause it
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Warren and Marshall - ANSWER: ➡ used the biomedical model to prove that H. pylori is a cause
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of peptic ulcers
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Cognitive Bias - ANSWER: ➡ patterns of judgement that cause us to make illogical inferences
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Scientific Method - ANSWER: ➡ observe, hypothesize, predict, test
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Theory - ANSWER: ➡ a hypothesis that has been tested over and over again
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sample - ANSWER: ➡ portion of the population of interest being studied in an experiment
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p-value - ANSWER: ➡ tells us what the probability is of obtaining our result if there really is no
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relationship between the variable we are interested in (<0.05 is generally accepted at a
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significant finding)
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Importance of Replication - ANSWER: ➡ experiments must be replicated to avoid
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experimenter's bias and confounds
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