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