BBH 101 (PSU) Exam 1 Practice Questions and Correct Answers
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Course
BBH 101
Institution
BBH 101
Humoral Theory 4 humors/ liquids; need to be balanced or you'll get sick
Reductionism understanding individual parts to understand whole system
John Snow: Chlorea caused severe diarrhea and vomiting. caused my infested water pumps
Semmelweis: Child bed fever mother and babies were dying after bi...
BBH 101 (PSU) Exam 1 Practice
Questions and Correct Answers
Humoral Theory ✅4 humors/ liquids; need to be balanced or you'll get sick
Reductionism ✅understanding individual parts to understand whole system
John Snow: Chlorea ✅caused severe diarrhea and vomiting. caused my infested water
pumps
Semmelweis: Child bed fever ✅mother and babies were dying after birth. Promoted
hand washing to decrease cases
Cell theory by Louis Pasteur ✅everything is made of cells and cells birth other cells
Vaccines ✅1st vaccine exposed cow pox people to prevent small pox. Edward Jenner.
Biomedical Model ✅believes illness always due to germs or biological factor
BBH perspective ✅accounts for things other than germs ex. DNA, stress, and social
relations
H. Pylori ✅leading cause of Ulcers, not stress. This was discovered by Warren and
Marshall
Scientific Method ✅observe, hypothesize, predict, test
P-value ✅probability that the results of your experiment has a chance of abnormality.
Less than .05 is significant find
Experimental Study ✅change in response because of the manipulations in the
Independent variable
Observational Study ✅Independent variable not manipulated by experimenter but still
different between groups
ex. one group smokes(IV) and another does not
prevalence ✅number of current cases
incidence ✅number of new cases
, cases study ✅clinical description of an individual case
case series ✅a group of case studies
Cross-sectional studies ✅takes a "point in time", there are no follow ups and measures
only taken once
Case-control studies ✅people with and without outcome are selected
research is done to see how many ppl in each group had exposure to a variable
Odds ratio ✅tells us how much more likely people with the exposure are to have the
outcome
higher number, higher risk
Cohort Studies ✅people with and without the exposure are selected then followed for a
specified period of time to see if they develop the outcome of interest
Blinding ✅single, double ( experimenter and participants), triple ( experimenters,
participants, and data collectors)
Empirical research ✅original research conducted, very specific title
Meta- analysis ✅analyze data as a whole; effective or not ? has a method section
literature review ✅like a journal or a paper about interesting research
Trepanation ✅attempt at early surgery. Punctures holes into the skull and took out
parts of the brain
Publication Bias ✅reports successful and unsuccessful experiments
Clinical Trial Phase 1 ✅drug is tested for safety
Clinical Trial Phase 2 ✅drug is tested to determine effectiveness
Clinical Trial Phase 3 ✅drug is tested for effectiveness compared to standard brands.
If this phase is successful a drug can be approved for sale by FDA
Central Nervous System (CNS) ✅brain and spinal cord. The spinal cords receives and
sends messages to the brain. Also send information from the brain to the body
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) ✅conveys all other messages to and from the CNS
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