EXAM 3 (FINAL)
STUDY GUIDE
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Chapter 15: Cardiovascular Health
What is the difference between the pulmonary and systemic circulation system?
What is the aorta?
What’s the difference between the aorta and vena cava?
What are some diseases associated with the cardiovascular disease?
What is atherosclerosis? How can it be deadly?
What is an aneurysm?
What is coronary heart disease?
What is ischemia?
What is a myocardial infarction? What is another name for it?
What is coronary thrombosis?
What is angina?
What is arrhythmia?
What is ventricular fibrillation?
What is a stroke?
• What is a ischemic stroke?
• What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
What is hypertension and why is it bad?
What is congestive heart failure?
What are some controllable risk factors of heart disease?
What are some psychosocial factors that contribute to heart disease?
What are some things you can do to promote cardiovascular health?
Chapter 16: Cancer
What is cancer?
What is a tumor?
What are some safety checks that prevent cells from growing uncontrollably?
What are stem cells?
What is a carcinogen?
What is the difference between a ‘benign tumor’ and a ‘malignant tumor’?
What is metastasis?
What is the difference between the 4 types of cancer?
How do specific lifestyle factors contribute to cancer?
How do specific environmental factors contribute to cancer?
Know about signs, symptoms and causes of the following cancers:
• Lung
• Colon/rectal
• Breast
• Prostate
• Female reproductive system
• Skin
• Testicular
• Leukemia
• Lymphoma
What is the difference between chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy?
Chapter 10: Alcohol
What are some negative outcomes associated with campus drinking culture?
Why do we drink?
What is a psychoactive drug?
What is intoxication?
What is low risk drinking behavior for men? women?
What is considered one drink?
What are some socialcultural factors that contribute to drinking?
What is binge drinking?
What are some consequences of binge drinking?
What does blood alcohol concentration indicate?
How many drinks can your body process an hour?
What causes hangovers?
What are some of the health risks of alcohol?
What is the difference between problem drinking, alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence
and alcoholism?
Chapter 10: Tobacco
What is tar?
How does carbon monoxide affect the body?
What is nicotine? How does it work?
Know the differences between cigarettes, cigars and smokeless tobacco.
How is the safety myth of hookah misleading?
Why is nicotine so addicting?
What are some symptoms of nicotine withdrawal?
What is behavioral dependence?
What is the relationship between smoking and weight control?
How do cigarette ads target youth?
What are some short term health effects of smoking?
What are some long term (chronic) effects of smoking? Think cancers and the various
lung disease.
What are some health issues women smokers face?
What are some health issues male smokers face?
What is second hand smoke?
What are the benefits of quitting smoking?
Chapter 11: Drugs
What is the difference between ‘drug misuse’ and ‘drug abuse’?
What are the common routes of drug administration and how do they work?
How does the pleasure and reward circuit work?
What are stimulants? What are some examples?
What are depressants? What are some examples?
What are opioids? What are some examples?
What are hallucinogens? What are some examples?
What are inhalants? What are some examples?
What are cannabinoids? What are some effects?
Chapter 16: Cancer
What is cancer?
What is a tumor?
What are some safety checks that prevent cells from growing uncontrollably?
What are stem cells?
What is a carcinogen?
What is the difference between a ‘benign tumor’ and a ‘malignant tumor’?
What is metastasis?
What is the difference between the 4 types of cancer?
How do specific lifestyle factors contribute to cancer?
How do specific environmental factors contribute to cancer?
Know about signs, symptoms and causes of the following cancers:
• Lung
• Colon/rectal
• Breast
• Prostate
• Female reproductive system
• Skin
• Testicular
• Leukemia
• Lymphoma
What is the difference between chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy?
Chapter 14: Infectious diseases
What is an infection?
What is the chain of infection?
What is a pathogen?
What is a vector?
What are viruses?
What is normal flora?
What are prions?
What are fungi?
What are parasites?
What are the different barriers that protect from disease?
What is the difference between ‘innate immune system’ and ‘acquired immune system’?
What is immunity?
What are vaccines and why are they important?
What are some controllable and uncontrollable risk factors for infectious diseases?
What is an autoimmune disease?
What are allergies?
What is anaphylactic shock?
What does it mean when we say “antibiotic resistant”?
Chapter 14: STDS
What does HIV stand for?
What does AIDS stand for?
How does the HIV virus work?
What is an opportunistic infection?
Where can the HIV virus be found?
How is sex a risk for HIV?
How is injection drug use a risk for HIV?
What are the universal precautions?
What is perinatal transmission and how does it happen?
Why is HIV testing important?
What lifestyle behaviors put you at higher risk for HIV?
How do antiretrovirals work?
Know the causes, signs, symptoms, complications and treatments for the following
STDs:
• Chlamydia
• Gonorrhea
• Syphilis
• Human papillomavirus (HPV)
• Genital herpes
• Heptatitis
Chapter 12: Sexual Health
What is testosterone and why is it important to sex drive?
Know the specifics about each phase of the human sexual response pattern:
• Excitement phase
• Plateau stage
• Orgasm stage
• Resolution stage
What is the refractory period?
What happens during an orgasm?
What are some of the sex hormones produced by men and women?
What is menopause?
What is a paraphilia?
What are some female sexual dysfunctions?
What are some male sexual dysfunctions?
Chapter 12: Relationships
What are some important attributes for a healthy sense of self?
What are some aspects of friendships and why are they beneficial?
What are some strengths of successful partnerships?
How do people figure out who they are attracted to?
What is the similarity theory?
What is the social exchange theory?
What is the love triangle theory?
• What is intimacy?
• What is passion?
• What is commitment?
What is nonverbal communication?
What is metamessage?
What are some gender differences in communication?
What is the difference between sex and gender?
What is cohesion?
What is flexibility?
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
Of the following 5 questions, only 4 will be asked on the exam. Short answers will
consist of 5 - 7 sentences. No more, no less.
1. What are some ways that you can enjoy alcohol in a healthy and responsible
manner? Give me THREE specific reasons and why they work. For example (you
can’t use this one): Drinking one drink an hour because that is the rate at which your
body processes it.
2. Why do we refer to secondhand smoke as “environmental smoke” and how can we
use that to advocate for smoking bans and related policies?
3. Why does society not openly talk about sex? What are some consequences of not
talking about it? What are some benefits of talking about it?
4. Imagine you are creating an ad campaign for chlamydia on college campuses? What
would you want to tell about the STD and how would they prevent it?
5. Reflecting back on the meth video and the dimension of health...how does meth use
affect your social wellbeing, mental wellbeing, physical wellbeing and occupational
wellbeing? For clarity, underline what dimension your are talking about before
discussing it.