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This updated 2025/2026 BBH Exam 4 study guide includes over 130 expertly verified questions and answers, covering essential biobehavioral health topics. It explores substance dependence, models of addiction, cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes, cancer types and treatments, immune responses, and drug classifications. Also included are mental health concepts, emotional intelligence, health disparities, and behavior-based risk factors. This document is perfect for students in biobehavioral health, psychology, nursing, public health, pre-med, health education, and allied health programs, as well as anyone preparing for exams involving behavioral medicine or health science. Keywords: addiction models, nicotine dependence, alcohol abuse, THC effects, CVD risk factors, Type 2 diabetes, hyperglycemia, atherosclerosis, cancer types, immunotherapy, stress and immunity, health psychology, drug classifications, reward system, withdrawal symptoms, smoking behavior, emotional intelligence, depression and cancer, guided imagery, BBH exam prep

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BBH Exam 4 2025/2026 Exam Questions
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Max has been smoking cigarettes so long that his body requires nicotine in order to

function normally. A health psychologist would say that Max clearly has

developed a state of: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔dependence


All major drugs of abuse overstimulate the brain's ancient reward system, which

runs through the: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔hypothalamus


The fact that people who are physically dependent on one substance (such as

nicotine) are more likely to be addicted to others as well (such as alcohol) provides

support for a(n) _________ model of addiction. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔reward


Approximately what percent of alcohol is absorbed from the stomach directly into

the bloodstream after drinking an alcoholic beverage? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔20%


Women who drink during critical stages of pregnancy place their infants at risk of


developing: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔fetal alcohol syndrome


Alcohol makes it difficult for drinkers to interpret complex or ambiguous stimuli


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, because drinkers tend to: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔focus on only the most salient cues


Which statement was NOT presented as evidence that alcohol dependence is

genetically influenced? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Female children of alcohol-dependent

parents are more likely to develop alcohol abuse than male children in the same

family.

As a treatment for alcohol dependence, the therapy that uses a nauseating drug

such as Antabuse strives to establish an aversion to the drug as a(n): - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔conditioned response


Which of these is most often cited as a reason that people start smoking? - 🧠

ANSWER ✔✔situational factors such as peer influence


According to the nicotine-titration model, smokers who are physically dependent

on


nicotine: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔regulate their smoking to maintain a steady level of the

drug in their bodies.

Researchers have located a gene in some alcohol users that alters the function of

DRD2, which is a receptor for: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔dopamine




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