ETX 010 Midterm Exam 1 With Verified
Solutions
You can request up to _____ extensions on learning assignment or questionnaire due
dates for any reason without penalty if you email _________. - Answer 3; TA Hector
What are the benefits of so many learning assignments in ETX10? Select all the correct
answers. - Answer So that you have opportunities to learn actively in ETX10.
So that you can overcome your misunderstandings to score well on exams.
So that you can master learning objectives without time pressure.
Select all the ways active learning can benefit you. - Answer Less likely to fail
Raise average grades
Raise exam performance
What is Toxicology? - Answer The study of adverse effects of chemicals
Who is attributed to describing the concept "the dose makes the poison"? - Answer
Paracelsus
Who is considered the father of occupational medicine and wrote Diseases of Workers, a
book about health hazards in the workplace? - Answer Bernardo Ramazzini
Who found high levels of cancer of the scrotum among chimney sweepers which lead to
the Chimney Sweepers Act of 1788? - Answer Percivall Pott
Who wrote the book Silent Spring, which alerted the American public about the health
, hazards of pesticides such as the thinning of bird egg shells causing bird population
declines? - Answer Rachel Carson
Match the field of toxicology to the activity that field engages in. - Answer Determine the
mechanisms of how exposures cause health adversity -> Biomedical research
Review plaintiff histories -> Law
Monitor human exposure and health effects -> Public Health
Monitor exposure and health effects in ecosystem -> Environmental Toxicology
Measure chemicals in decaying substances -> Forensic Toxicology
What is the best definition of a counterfactual? - Answer A hypothetical situation that
would have been true in similar but different circumstances
Why are randomized controlled trials so seldomly used in environmental health and
toxicology research? You can choose more than one. - Answer It is unethical to poison
people on purpose.
We only have one earth.
Some exposures happen to everyone.
How is observing correlations between exposure and health outcomes helpful in
identifying causation between exposure and health? You can choose more than one. * -
Answer Observing correlations can show you an exposure is a specific cause of health
outcomes.
Observing consistent correlations between exposure and health outcomes across
different countries and species suggests the correlation could be causal.
Observing correlations between exposure and health outcomes reveals biological
plausibility.
Observing correlations leads to hypotheses that can be tested experimentally.
Which of Hill's causal considerations are most poorly addressed in human studies of
toxic exposures? - Answer Specificity
Solutions
You can request up to _____ extensions on learning assignment or questionnaire due
dates for any reason without penalty if you email _________. - Answer 3; TA Hector
What are the benefits of so many learning assignments in ETX10? Select all the correct
answers. - Answer So that you have opportunities to learn actively in ETX10.
So that you can overcome your misunderstandings to score well on exams.
So that you can master learning objectives without time pressure.
Select all the ways active learning can benefit you. - Answer Less likely to fail
Raise average grades
Raise exam performance
What is Toxicology? - Answer The study of adverse effects of chemicals
Who is attributed to describing the concept "the dose makes the poison"? - Answer
Paracelsus
Who is considered the father of occupational medicine and wrote Diseases of Workers, a
book about health hazards in the workplace? - Answer Bernardo Ramazzini
Who found high levels of cancer of the scrotum among chimney sweepers which lead to
the Chimney Sweepers Act of 1788? - Answer Percivall Pott
Who wrote the book Silent Spring, which alerted the American public about the health
, hazards of pesticides such as the thinning of bird egg shells causing bird population
declines? - Answer Rachel Carson
Match the field of toxicology to the activity that field engages in. - Answer Determine the
mechanisms of how exposures cause health adversity -> Biomedical research
Review plaintiff histories -> Law
Monitor human exposure and health effects -> Public Health
Monitor exposure and health effects in ecosystem -> Environmental Toxicology
Measure chemicals in decaying substances -> Forensic Toxicology
What is the best definition of a counterfactual? - Answer A hypothetical situation that
would have been true in similar but different circumstances
Why are randomized controlled trials so seldomly used in environmental health and
toxicology research? You can choose more than one. - Answer It is unethical to poison
people on purpose.
We only have one earth.
Some exposures happen to everyone.
How is observing correlations between exposure and health outcomes helpful in
identifying causation between exposure and health? You can choose more than one. * -
Answer Observing correlations can show you an exposure is a specific cause of health
outcomes.
Observing consistent correlations between exposure and health outcomes across
different countries and species suggests the correlation could be causal.
Observing correlations between exposure and health outcomes reveals biological
plausibility.
Observing correlations leads to hypotheses that can be tested experimentally.
Which of Hill's causal considerations are most poorly addressed in human studies of
toxic exposures? - Answer Specificity
