BBH 101 EXAMINATION TEST PAPER 2026
FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ humoral theory
Answer: belief that certain liquids in the body must be in balance
◉ cholera
Answer: disease that causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, which
can lead to dehydration, shock, and death
◉ Reductionism
Answer: an approach to science based on the philosophy that we can
understand a more complex system by first understanding the
individual components of that system
◉ John Snow
Answer: studied patterns of cholera outbreak in London and
identified a public water pump as the source
◉ Semmelweis
,Answer: discovered that childbed fever was caused by doctors not
washing their hands
◉ Cell Theory
Answer: organisms are made up of cells
◉ Louis Pasteur
Answer: examined porridge by leaving one container open and the
other sealed; the one unsealed grew mold
◉ Edward Jenner
Answer: developed the 1st vaccine from theory that cowpox
prevents smallpox; exposed a little boy to the vaccine then to
smallpox and he did not get smallpox
◉ Alexander Flemming
Answer: discovered antibacterial effects of penicillin
◉ Biomedical Model
Answer: suggests that illness always has a biological cause
◉ Biobehavioral Perspective
, Answer: recognizes biological, psychological, and sociocultural
focuses in determining an individual's health and vulnerability to
disease
◉ Framingham Heart Study
Answer: used the biobehavioral perspective to study risk factors of
cardiovascular disease; helped us understand that smoking,
cholesterol, blood pressure, obesity, etc can cause it
◉ Warren and Marshall
Answer: used the biomedical model to prove that H. pylori is a cause
of peptic ulcers
◉ Cognitive Bias
Answer: patterns of judgement that cause us to make illogical
inferences
◉ Scientific Method
Answer: observe, hypothesize, predict, test
◉ Theory
Answer: a hypothesis that has been tested over and over again
FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ humoral theory
Answer: belief that certain liquids in the body must be in balance
◉ cholera
Answer: disease that causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, which
can lead to dehydration, shock, and death
◉ Reductionism
Answer: an approach to science based on the philosophy that we can
understand a more complex system by first understanding the
individual components of that system
◉ John Snow
Answer: studied patterns of cholera outbreak in London and
identified a public water pump as the source
◉ Semmelweis
,Answer: discovered that childbed fever was caused by doctors not
washing their hands
◉ Cell Theory
Answer: organisms are made up of cells
◉ Louis Pasteur
Answer: examined porridge by leaving one container open and the
other sealed; the one unsealed grew mold
◉ Edward Jenner
Answer: developed the 1st vaccine from theory that cowpox
prevents smallpox; exposed a little boy to the vaccine then to
smallpox and he did not get smallpox
◉ Alexander Flemming
Answer: discovered antibacterial effects of penicillin
◉ Biomedical Model
Answer: suggests that illness always has a biological cause
◉ Biobehavioral Perspective
, Answer: recognizes biological, psychological, and sociocultural
focuses in determining an individual's health and vulnerability to
disease
◉ Framingham Heart Study
Answer: used the biobehavioral perspective to study risk factors of
cardiovascular disease; helped us understand that smoking,
cholesterol, blood pressure, obesity, etc can cause it
◉ Warren and Marshall
Answer: used the biomedical model to prove that H. pylori is a cause
of peptic ulcers
◉ Cognitive Bias
Answer: patterns of judgement that cause us to make illogical
inferences
◉ Scientific Method
Answer: observe, hypothesize, predict, test
◉ Theory
Answer: a hypothesis that has been tested over and over again
