Exam 1 BBH 311 Practice Questions and Correct Answers
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BBH 311
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BBH 311
Understand the dramatic shift in the cause of death between the 1900's to today heart disease, cancer, and accidents are leading causes of death since 2017 in the US of all ages
What three things are listed that contribute to an individual's health status? individual traits like age and sex, race,...
Exam 1 BBH 311 Practice Questions and
Correct Answers
Understand the dramatic shift in the cause of death between the 1900's to today
✅heart disease, cancer, and accidents are leading causes of death since 2017 in the
US of all ages
What three things are listed that contribute to an individual's health status? ✅individual
traits like age and sex, race, and biological factors
Be able to define the Biopsychosocial model and what does it emphasize? ✅-
emphasizes the interconnection between biological, psychological and socio-
environmental factors.
-interdisciplinary
-different from BBH model
Biopsychosocial model includes disciplines such as..... ✅-biological
-psychological
-social
health ✅a complete state of physical, mental, and social well being and NOT merely
the absence of disease or infirmity
health psychology ✅educational and scientific contributions of psychology to the
promotion and maintenance of health, the prevention and treatment of illness, and
identification of the causes and correlates of health and illness
behavioral medicine ✅interdisciplinary field concerned with the developmental and
integration of behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical science knowledge and
techniques relevant to the understanding of health and illness
bio-behavioral health ✅the study of the interaction of biological, behavioral,
sociocultural, and environmental variables in the etiology and prevention of health
problems and in the promotion of healthy human development
A single story ✅a single story can be defined as the false and simple conceptions we
perceive about individuals, groups, or countries.
Ancient Culture (stone age) ✅"trephination"/ surgery in the skull
Ancient Greeks:
,What did they move away from? ✅they moved away from beliefs that evil spirits cause
diseases
Ancient Greeks:
What two scientists were key during this time era? ✅Hippocrates and Galen
Ancient Greeks:
Humoral theory and when all of these were discredited ✅Humoral theory of illness and
it was discredited in the 19th century
Ancient Greek:
Bloodletting and when all of these were discredited ✅Bloodletting removed bad blood
from individuals to help them cure from their disease
Ancient Greek:
personality types and when all of these were discredited ✅Specific personality types
associated with bodily functions
-sanguine, melancholic, choleric, phlegmatic
Ancient Greeks:
What are possible re-emergences of the above in modern medicine today?
✅Hemochromatis:
can lead to liver failure or diabeties
Regular "phlebotomy" can get rid of excess iron in the body
Ancient Greeks:
Hippocratic oath?
what was 1st approved "biotherapy" by FDA? ✅-remains sacred to physicians today,
to do no harm
-Maggots and leaches
Middle Ages:
Understand the mysticism and demonology during this time period. ✅getting a disease
is gods punishment for evildoing
Cure: drive out the demons
Middle Ages:
Who did the healing? ✅religions did the healing, NOT science
Renaissance:
, What was this a key time for? ✅key time for science and inquiry of new technologies
Renaissance:
What theory was rejected during this time period? ✅humoral theory of illness was
rejected
Renaissance:
What two ideas prevailed during this time period and why? ✅1- the autopsy (rejected
humoral theory)
2- the microscope
new view into the world of disease and the body
**Monism was believed during this time that the mind and body are one
(Van Leeuwenhoek)
Modern Concepts of Mind-Body Relationships:
Freud:
What do unconscious conflicts lead to? ✅unconscious conflicts lead to physical
problems (headaches, migranes, sudden loss of hearing)
Freud:
Understand conversion hysteria ✅Conversion hysteria is a conflict, that leads to a
physical symptom, that may later lead to depression and anxiety
Freud:
What is glove anesthesia and what was the problem? ✅Glove anesthesia is when the
hand becomes numb and no other part of the body is numb, the person cannot feel their
hand.
-The problem is that this did not affect physiology, that anything that is in your head like
your thoughts, makes you get sent to a psychiatrist
Dunbar and Alexander:
What did they link to specific illnesses? ✅they linked personality types to specific
illnesses
Dunbar and Alexander:
Understand ulcer-prone personality ✅bacterium, H. Pylori, crossing into stomach
mucosal bed to cause ulcer
Dunbar and Alexander:
Know what the criticisms are of Dunbar and Alexanders theory ✅-methodological
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