Second Exam Readings

Question 1

The CDC recommends ___
separate vaccines for children under six, for immunity from such diseases as measles,
tetanus, polio, and diphtheria

Answer 1

11

Question 2

You have to get the flu vaccine every year because…

Answer 2

influenza is always changing and evolving

Question 3

What is conditioned taste aversion?

Answer 3

Avoiding certain foods because you have poisoned in the past from them; a protective from getting ill again

Question 4

Conditioned taste aversion can surprisingly

Answer 4

influence immune responses too

Question 5

What is surprising about the ADHD study with children?

Answer 5

The children knew pills alongside their typical medication were placebos. But those who went through this conditioning process later did just as well on the placebo plus half their normal drug dose as another group did on the full drug dose – and significantly better than children who received a half-dose without conditioning.

Question 6

Who has the worse mortality rate? Married, bachelor, or widow individuals?

Answer 6

Widows, then bachelors, then married

Question 7

Research on social networks have found…

Answer 7

facets of health (smoking, obesity, etc.) seem to spread amongst the individuals.

Question 8

Those who are naturally optimistic are…

Answer 8

less likely to die of heart disease and other causes

Question 9

Physical inactivity is considered

Answer 9

a “global public health problem” that contributes to millions of deaths each year and even associated with
sharper declines in conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and openness overtime (contributes to our personality)

Question 10

Drug-dosing problems…

Answer 10

are just one example of how the health care system is blind to biological sex differences and often arise from a serious gap in our understanding of sex differences

Question 11

self­-determination theory

Answer 11

suggests that people derive their overall sense of well-being in life from fulfilling three core needs: Feeling competent (successful/capable), feeling autonomous
(independent/self-governing), and feeling related (connected to others).

Question 12

Our sense of control goes down as we fall down the socioeconomic ladder… indicating that

Answer 12

those on the bottom are more than three times as likely to die prematurely as those at the top. They’re also more likely to suffer
from depression, heart disease and diabetes

Question 13

Why do blacks who are older than 65 live longer than whites?

Answer 13

black Americans who make it to 65 are comparatively healthier than their white peers, because many of those who are most susceptible to chronic diseases have already died