BBH 101 (PSU) Exam 1 Questions and
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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
infe...
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
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