CARD EXAM 1 BCAT CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TESTED QUESTIONS FULL SOLUTION GUIDE

CARD EXAM 1 BCAT CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TESTED QUESTIONS FULL
SOLUTION GUIDE
CARD EXAM 1 BCAT Certification Evaluation
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Update 2026/2027

Question:
● Risk

Answer:
Factor that when present increases the chance of disease Not stressors, but conditions or situations
that increase the likelihood of encountering a stressor



Question:
● Prevalence

Answer:
A measure of disease that allows us to determine a person's likelihood of having a disease.
Therefore, the number of prevalent cases is the total number of cases of disease existing in a
population. A prevalence rate is the total number of cases of a disease existing in a population
divided by the total population Indicates how widespread the disease is



Question:
● Incidence

Answer:
A measure of disease that allows us to determine a person's probability of being diagnosed with a
disease during a given period of time. Therefore, incidence is the number of newly diagnosed cases
of a disease. An incidence rate is the number of new cases of a disease divided by the number of
persons at risk for the disease. Conveys information about the risk of contracting the disease.



Question:
● Ratio

,Answer:
The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or
is contained within the other.



Question:
● Primary Prevention

Answer:
Altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible persons *Both illness and disease are
absent example: vaccinations, healthy lifestyles



Question:
● Secondary Prevention

Answer:
Early detection, screening, and management of disease *Illness absent, disease present example:
screenings and testings



Question:
● Tertiary Prevention

Answer:
Rehabilitation, supportive care, reducing disability, and restoring effective functioning *Both illness
and disease present example: education



Question:
● Epidemiology

Answer:
study of the patterns of disease involving populations; examining the occurrence, incidence,
prevalence, transmission, and distribution of diseases in large groups of populations/people

,Question:
● Endemic

Answer:
A disease theat is native to a local region



Question:
● Epidemic

Answer:
When a disease is disseninated to many individals at the same time (spread to many people at the
same time)



Question:
● Pandemic

Answer:
Epidemics that affect large geographic regions, perhaps spreading worldwide. (spread to large
geographic areas)



Question:
● *Chapter 2: Homeostasis and Adaptive Responses to Stressors*

Answer:




Question:
● Homeostasis

Answer:
A state of being in which all systems are in balance around a articular ideal "set-point"

, Question:
● Exhausation

Answer:
Point where body can no longer return to homeostasis following a prolonged exposure to noxious
agents



Question:
● Allostatic Overload

Answer:
"Cost" of body's organs and tissues for an excessive or ineffectively regulated allostatic response;
effect of "wear and tear" on the body



Question:
● Adaptation

Answer:
Adaptation: biopsychosocial process of change in response to new or altered circumstances, internal
or external in origin Coping: behavioral adaptive response to a stressor using culturally based coping
mechanisms Adaptation and coping: terms used interchangeably



Question:
● Arousal

Answer:
Includes alterations in responsiveness to homeostatic pressures, sensory stimuli and emotional
reactivity, and to changes in motor activity



Question:
● Function of Cortisol

Answer: