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BBH 101 Exam 1 (PSU) with Complete Solutions4 chambers of the heart - ANS-left atria, right atria, left ventricle, right ventricle
Action Potentials - ANS-signals that allow electrical signaling within the neuron
Alexander Flemming - ANS-discovered antibacterial effects of penicillin
allele - ANS-one of two or more different forms of a gene
Amygdala - ANS-controls fearful emotions
Anterior Pituitary Gland - ANS-synthesizes its own hormones; releases many
intermediate hormones, including ACTH, beta-endorphin, luteinizing hormone, and
growth hormone
arteries - ANS-carry blood away from the heart
Autonomic PNS - ANS-controls involuntary movement
Axon - ANS-part of the neuron that conducts information
Bidirectional - ANS-A causes B and B causes A (affect each other)
Biobehavioral Perspective - ANS-recognizes biological, psychological, and sociocultural
focuses in determining an individual's health and vulnerability to disease
Biomedical Model - ANS-suggests that illness always has a biological cause
Blinding - ANS-when the group assignment is concealed
blood contains... - ANS-red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma
Brainstem - ANS-central trunk of the brain; keeps you alive
capillaries - ANS-carries blood throughout organs and body
Case Series - ANS-collection of case studies involving a group of patients with similar
characteristics
Case Study - ANS-clinical description of a single patient, usually describing an unusual
feature or association between disease and some expose factor
Case-Control Study - ANS-People with the outcome and without the outcome are
selected and research is done to see how many people in each group have exposure to
some variable or interest (retrospective study)
, Causality - ANS-relationship between two events such that one is understood to be a
consequence of the other
Cell Theory - ANS-organisms are made up of cells
Central Nervous System - ANS-brain and spinal cord
Cerebellum - ANS-controls movement
Cerebral Cortex - ANS-4 lobes (frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal) and the
prefrontal cortex
cholera - ANS-disease that causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, which can lead to
dehydration, shock, and death
chromosomes - ANS-made up of strands of DNA that contain thousands of genes
Clinical Trials for Prescription Drugs - ANS-randomized clinical trial (RCT's) with
placebo used to asses effectiveness of prescription drugs
Cognitive Bias - ANS-patterns of judgement that cause us to make illogical inferences
Cohort Studies - ANS-people with a certain exposure and without the exposure are
selected, then followed for a specified period of time to see if they develop the outcome
of interest
Coincidence - ANS-relationship is caused by chance
Common Causal Variable - ANS-C causes A and B
complement proteins - ANS-assists the immune system in destroying pathogens;
activated by immune system of microbes
Cross-sectional Study - ANS-takes a "point-in-time" picture of health, health behaviors,
and other exposure factors; there is no follow up, measures are only taken once
cytokines - ANS-conveys messages of infection to the brain and produced by a variety
of immune system cells; associated with the "sickness response"
Dendrite - ANS-part of the neuron that receives information
diastole - ANS-part of the cardiac cycle in which the heart relaxes and fills up with blood
Dopamine pathways - ANS-connects the ventral segmental area and nucleus
accumbens
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