BBH 101 exam 1 2024 with answers

BBH 101 exam 1 2024 with answers

life expectancy - ANSWER: ➡ A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be
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chronic disease - ANSWER: ➡ an ongoing condition or illness
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biomedical model - ANSWER: ➡ A perspective that explains illness solely in terms of
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biological factors.
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Pathogen - ANSWER: ➡ A disease causing agent
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biopsychosocial model - ANSWER: ➡ a model of health that integrates the effects of
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biological, behavioral, and social factors on health and illness
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Genomics - ANSWER: ➡ study of whole genomes, including genes and their functions
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Epigenetics - ANSWER: ➡ the study of environmental influences on gene expression that
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occur without a DNA change
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Subjective well-being - ANSWER: ➡ self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used
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along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators)
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to evaluate people's quality of life.
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birth cohort - ANSWER: ➡ set of people who were born during the same era and who face
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similar societal circumstances brought about by their shared position in the overall age
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structure of the population
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, Which historical periods focused primarily on spiritualism, mysticism, and superstition for
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addressing health issues - ANSWER: ➡ - Middle Ages
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Illness is a punishment from god, priests heal the mind, mind healed = body healed
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Which historical periods focused primarily on scientific aspects for addressing health issues?
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- ANSWER: ➡ - Renaissance
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"Descartes's body-mind dualism", body and mind are separate
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Hippocrates - ANSWER: ➡ Disease approached scientifically, "father" of modern medicine,
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humoral theory
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) - ANSWER: ➡ Founded on the principal of internal
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harmony, Qi (vital energy or life force), Acupuncture herbal therapy and meditation
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Ayureveda - ANSWER: ➡ (Longevity-knowledge), Health is a balance in the body
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Descartes Dualism - ANSWER: ➡ the mind and body are separate yet intertwined
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biopsychosocial approach - ANSWER: ➡ an integrated approach that incorporates
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biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis
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immigrant paradox - ANSWER: ➡ the fact that despite living in poverty, going to
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msubstandard schools, and not having parents who speak the language, many immigrant
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mchildren do far better than we might expect at school
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Belief bias - ANSWER: ➡ the tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical
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reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem
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