PSU BBH 101 final Exam; Questions with Complete Solutions
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BBH 101
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BBH 101
PSU BBH 101 final Exam; Questions with
Complete Solutions
biomedical model Correct Answer-suggests that illness always has a
biological cause
*only really focuses on pathogens and how people get sick
biobehavioral model Correct Answer-recognizes biological, psychological,
and sociocultural...
PSU BBH 101 final Exam; Questions with
Complete Solutions
biomedical model Correct Answer-suggests that illness always has a
biological cause
*only really focuses on pathogens and how people get sick
biobehavioral model Correct Answer-recognizes biological, psychological,
and sociocultural forces in determining an individuals health and vulnerability to
disease
*a more "well rounded" view of health
hypothesis Correct Answer-an idea that someone has about something
theory Correct Answer-an idea that has been proven over and over
p-value Correct Answer-tells you the probability of obtaining your result if
there really is no relationship between the variables that you are testing (rules
out likelihood of random chance)
*p-vaules of LESS THAN 0.05 is generally accepted as a significant finding
prevalence Correct Answer-number of current cases of something
incidence Correct Answer-number of new cases of something
Case-study Correct Answer-A description of one patient
*useful for unique cases, but not really for finding out what causes a condition
, PSU BBH 101 final Exam; Questions with
Complete Solutions
*low explanatory capabilities
Cross-sectional study Correct Answer-Taken at "one point in time", and no
follow up is given
*typically a survey
*you can see correlation, but not causation
Case control study Correct Answer-A group that has the thing you're studying
for, and a group that does not have the thing you're studying for
*uses odds ratio to measure results
odds ratio Correct Answer-tells how much more likely people with the
exposure are to have an outcome; a higher number equals a greater risk
(compared to the group without the exposure)
cohort study Correct Answer-no one in the study has the outcome you're
looking for, but some are exposed to what you believe to be a risk
*you can examine cause/effect from this!!!
How do you make the groups you are studying as similar as possible? Correct
Answer-Random assignments: randomly assign people to the groups
Blinding: concealing what group they are a part of (can be single, double, or
triple)
Good placebo: make it look similar to the actual drug or whatever you are
testing for so that people can't obviously tell it's fake
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