PSU BBH 101 final exam 2023 questions and 100% correct answers

biomedical model - correct answer suggests that illness always has a biological cause *only really focuses on pathogens and how people get sick biobehavioral model - correct answer recognizes biological, psychological, and sociocultural forces in determining an individuals health and vulnerability to disease *a more "well rounded" view of health hypothesis - correct answer an idea that someone has about something theory - correct answer an idea that has been proven over and over p-value - correct answer tells you the probability of obtaining your result if there really is no relationship between the variables that you are testing (rules out likelihood of random chance) *p-vaules of LESS THAN 0.05 is generally accepted as a significant finding prevalence - correct answer number of current cases of something incidence - correct answer number of new cases of something Case-study - correct answer A description of one patient *useful for unique cases, but not really for finding out what causes a condition *low explanatory capabilities Cross-sectional study - correct answer Taken at "one point in time", and no follow up is given *typically a survey