BBH 101 FINAL EXAM PSU UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

BBH 101 FINAL EXAM PSU UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. ______________ is the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
Answer:
health

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2. What are the goals of healthy people 2020?
Answer:
longer lives, improve health for all groups and promote good health behaviors

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3. ______________ are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities
to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially dis
Answer:
health disparities

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4. ________________ is the number of cases a specific injury, illness, or disability in a given group of
people at a given time.
Answer:
morbidity

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5. ________________ is the number of deaths due to specific cause in a given group at a given time
Answer:
mortality

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6. morbidity is related to ________________, while mortality is related to ________________.
Answer:
death; disease

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7. ________________ are origins
Answer:
etiology

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8. ________________ is the number of a new case of disease that occur in a specific population within a
defined interval.
Answer:
incidence

,Question:
9. ________________ is the total number of diagnosed cases of disease or condition that exists at a certain
time.
Answer:
prevalence

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10. incidence is the number of ________________, while prevalence is the ________________
Answer:
new cases; total number

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11. What is the central nervous system?
Answer:
brain and spinal cord

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12. What does the autonomic nervous system control?
Answer:
glands and the muscles of the internal organs

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13. What does the sympathetic nervous system do?
Answer:
arouses the body, mobilizing its energy in stressful situations "fight or flight"

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14. What does the parasympathetic nervous system do?
Answer:
calms the body "rest and digest"

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15. ________________ are nerve cells that send and receive signals across synapses
Answer:
neurons

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16. ________________ are synpases that communicate connections between neurons
Answer:
neurotransmitters

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17. ________________ is the process when a neuron communicates with a target cell through synapse
Answer:
synaptic transmission

, Question:
18. What are the lower-level structures of the brain?
Answer:
brainstem, medulla, pons, thalamus, cerebellum

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19. ________________ is responsible for automatic survival functions
Answer:
brainstem

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20. ________________ controlls heartbeat and breathing
Answer:
medulla

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21. ________________ are the 2 thick stalks connected to the cerebellum that regulates sleep, breathing,
swallowing, and bladder control
Answer:
pons

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22. ________________ directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in the cerebral cortex
Answer:
thalamus

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23. What is the brain's sensory switchboard?
Answer:
thalamus

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24. ________________ helps coordinate voluntary movement and balance
Answer:
cerebellum

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25. What are the limbic system's structures?
Answer:
amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus

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26. ________________ is linked to emotion (anger and anxiety)
Answer:
amygdala