BBH 101 Exam 1 Actual Exam Questions with

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What are cognitive biases? - ANSWER - Patterns of judgment that cause us to make illogical inferences

Hypothesis Testings (steps) - ANSWER - Observe Hypothesize Predict Test

A reason why experiments must be replicated: - ANSWER - Biases and confounds are still possible even with statistically significant data

What is Causality? - ANSWER - relationship between two events such that one is understood to be consequence of the other

• Types of blood vessels: - ANSWER - Arteries: carry blood away from the heart

Veins: carry blood towards the heart

Capillaries: Very tiny branches of blood vessels that branch into bodily tissues

Another name for red blood cells - ANSWER – Erythrocytes

Two types of autonomic nerves: - ANSWER - Sympathetic & parasympathetic 1 / 3

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Sympathetic - ANSWER - "fight or flight" kicks in when you encounter something potentially deadly or when you become anxious or nervous

Parasympathetic - ANSWER - "rest and digest"

Example of establishing causality: - ANSWER - Smoking cigs and lung cancers

Exposure is what kind of variable - ANSWER - Independent Variable

Outcome is what kind of variable - ANSWER - Dependent Variable

Leaving neurotransmitters in synaptic cleft can cause: - ANSWER - Over stimulation

Proteins sit in membrane that released neurotransmitter; use electrical signals to pull back in these neurotransmitters - ANSWER - Reuptake

What does the cerebral cortex look like? - ANSWER - A shell that covers the brain

What origins are found in the cortex? - ANSWER - Memory & Movement

What are the 4 lobes of the cortex? - ANSWER - Frontal, parietal, occipital, & temporal

What cognitive functions are part of the prefrontal cortex - ANSWER - Planning & Impulse control

Retrospective - ANSWER - Looking back at a study after the outcome

Prospective - ANSWER - start out with no one having the outcome and then seeing who gets it 2 / 3

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Prevalence - ANSWER - Current number of cases of something

Incidence - ANSWER - Number of new cases (tells you more about how rapidly a disease is growing)

Hypothalamic endocrine response - ANSWER - Releases a hormone that triggers the release of another hormone that then affects another gland or organ

Order of the hypothalamic endocrine response - ANSWER - Hypothalamus--> Pituitary gland--> Peripheral gland/organ

Inflammatory response: - ANSWER - Triggered by any damage to tissue

Results in release of histamine

1) increases blood flow to damaged area 2)Phagocytes and other white blood cells are attraced 3) Any body cells & bacteria in the are are engulfed

Overall effect: helps to prevent spread of infection, clotting seals or infected region, repair of damaged tissues begins

What is produced by fat cells and acts to suppress hunger via hypothalamus - ANSWER

• Leptin

What is produced by cells in the GI tract and acts to increase hunger via hypothalamus - ANSWER - Ghrelin

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