Psychology
A phenomenon where an individual, when in a group, is less likely to respond to a person in need.
What is the bystander effect?
The year America landed on the moon.
What was 1969?
The name for the diet that represents the eating habits of most Americans.
What is the standard American diet?
Technicians who respond to emergency calls and are often one of the first health care professionals to arrive at the scene of an emergency. They provide advanced life support to the sick and injured, and transport patients to medical facilities.
What is a paramedic/EMT/first responder?
The number of centimeters in a meter.
100
A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior.
What is operant conditioning?
The first woman to have won a Nobel prize and the only woman to have won two.
Who was Madam Curie?
The good type of cholesterol.
What is HDL?
A medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating injuries and diseases using medical imaging procedures.
What is a radiologist?
The number of milliseconds in a second.
1000
The pathway in the that brain includes the nucleus accumbens, medial forebrain bundle, and ventral tegmental area, uses dopamine as its main neurotransmitter, and mediates drug addiction.
What is the mesolimbic reward pathway?
The physicist who invented calculus.
Who was Isaac Newton?
Gottfried Leibniz
The three macronutrients.
What are fat, carbohydrates, and protein?
A specialized nurse that cares for patients before, during, and after surgery.
What is a perioperative/surgical nurse?
The number of meters in a kilometer.
1000
Chemical messengers used by the nervous system for communication between cells.
What are neurotransmitters?
The scientist whose famous work with pea plants established many of the rules of heredity.
Who was Gregor Mendel?
The carbohydrate that serves as blood sugar.
What is glucose?
Technicians responsible for drawing blood samples and preparing them for laboratory testing.
What are phlebotomists?
10-9 meters.
What is a nanometer?
This division of the brain is responsible for visual perception.
What is the occipital lobe?
A series of psychological experiments in the 1960s where most participants were willing to painfully electrically shock a planted actor even after he pretended to withdraw consent from the experiment. The actor was not actually receiving any electric shocks but pretended to be in extreme pain for the sake of the experiment.
What was the Milgram shock experiment?
A monosaccharide that can only be metabolized by liver cells. It is found as part of the disaccharide sucrose.
What is fructose?
Health care professionals who have specialized education and training in the field of medical genetics. Using family history, they will assess individual or family risk of an inherited condition, such as a genetic disorder or a birth defect.
What is a genetic counselor?
The three most common base units in the metric system.
What are grams, liters, and meters?