Introduction
Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology are all studied in this field of science.
What is Human Physiology?
The ability of the body to maintain a relatively stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
A logical guess.
What is a hypothesis?
Properties that cannot be predicted based only on knowledge of the system's individual components.
What are emergent properties?
A transitional environment between the body's external environment and the intracellular fluid (ICF).
What is the extracelluar fluid (ECF)?
A variable that is manipulated in an experiment?
What is the independent variable?
This approach examines the process of a physiological activity.
What is the meachanistic approach to studying physiology?
The amount of a substance (e.g. glucose) in the body remains constant, where any gain is offset by an equal loss.
What is the Law of Mass Balance?
A model that is supported with substantial evidence from multiple investigators.
What is a scientific theory?
A nonlinear way of organizing material that thinks about the relationship between pieces of information.
What is concept mapping?
A response opposes a stimulus.
What is a negative feedback loop?
A study where the control group in the first half of the experiment becomes the experimental group in the second half, and vice versa, but no one involved knows who is taking the active treatment.
What is a double-blind crossover study?
Information flow coordinates body function.
What is a major theme in Human Physiology?
An input signal, a controller, and an output signal.
What are the components of a control system?
When someone gets better after being told the pill they take will alleviate some problem.
What is the placebo effect?