BBH 311 (quiz 1) Practice Questions and Correct Answers
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Course
BBH 311
Institution
BBH 311
What things are negotiable when receiving a job offer? salary, start up, lab space, teaching load
How do researchers pay for biobehaviorial research studies? grant money
not start up funds because that is just money provided by the boss once, not every year
Why are priori hypotheses important wh...
BBH 311 (quiz 1) Practice Questions and
Correct Answers
What things are negotiable when receiving a job offer? ✅salary, start up, lab space,
teaching load
How do researchers pay for biobehaviorial research studies? ✅grant money
not start up funds because that is just money provided by the boss once, not every year
Why are priori hypotheses important when doing research? ✅help avoid Type 1 error
(do not test as many things)
True or False: Research with human participants has directly demonstrated the
imprtance of using microbiome to treat depression ✅False; most done with animals
and no clinical trials with humans
True or False: Research with human participants has directly demonstrated the
importance of cellular energetics ( such as mitochondrial dysfunction and glycolysis)
✅False; does not test directly but the biproducts of it
In BBH the term inflammation does NOT refer to what type of cytokine response?
✅Acute
What is the reason for choosing the inflammatory cytokines that BBH researchers most
often measure? ✅they are influenced by stress
they are not easy to identify (which is why they are so expensive) and they do not all
change rapidly
True or False: Cows emit more CO2 from digesting food than cars emit from burning
fuel ✅False; there was a quote that said it was true but it is not actually true
it takes more gas than 1 million to take cows to slaughter and to plow fields-- not cows
themselves but fuels that are burning to make stuff with cows that emits of the fuels
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increased risk of... ✅Heart disease
What is the reason that could explain why vitamin d deficiency is associated with racial
health disparities? ✅ease of modern day migration
no genetic difference in vitamin d production with different people just comes down to
the letting in of sun
, - mismatch in skin color= people who have fair skin going to a place with too much sun
is why skin cancer is becoming more prevalent,, there skin was not made for that kind of
environment
True or False: Buying a vitamin d supplement from GNC without MD input is safe and
effective for reducing seasonal affective disorder symptoms ✅False; too much vitamin
d is toxic because of calcium build up
Inflammation ✅a localized physical condition in which part of the body becomes
reddened, swollen, hot, and often painful especially as a reaction to injury or infection
In BBH studies,, inflammation refers to ✅chronic systemic circulating pro-inflammatory
cytokines
Systemic/ Circulating
Pro-inflammatory
Chronic
In BBH we focus on cytokines that ✅- are known to impact health and are influenced
by stress
Climate change ✅a change in global or regional climate patterns due to humans
burning fossil fuel
Is climate change from the cows themselves? ✅NO
it is from the..
fuel to make fertilizer and transport it
fuel for tractors
fuel for transporting corn feed and cattle
fuel consumer uses to pick up the beef
fuel/electricity to refrigerate/cook the beef
How would the loss of land to higher water, as a result of climate change, impact human
health? ✅- increased bacterial infections
- algae bloom (toxic and affects seafood with ciguatera which is a disease that causes
gastric and neurological damage)
- increased stress bc relocation is stressful (jobs and living wise)
How do wildfires impact human health? ✅-respiratory problems (initiates airway
inflammation)
- cardiovascular problems
- long term exposure to pollution may be associated with cognitive problems
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