MCAT
Psych/Soc
A student is volunteering in a hospital with a stroke center. When asked what he believes is the prevalence of stroke among those greater than 65 years old, the student states that it is probably about 40% even though data analysis indicates that it is significantly lower. What accounts for this error?
A. Deductive reasoning
B. Representativeness heuristic
C. Base rate fallacy
D. Confirmation bias
What is base rate fallacy? (C)
You are a community health nurse working at the public health department. You are tasked with starting a free exercise class at the recreation center to encourage & motivate residents to work out and lose weight. This program is using what concept to improve community health?
a. Risk reduction
b. Health protection
c. Health promotion
d. Health motivation
What is health promotion? (C)
What is the most common STD in the US?
What is chlamydia?
In regard to pulsed ultrasound, this parameter is the only one that measures the on and off time.
a. Spatial pulse length
b. Pulse repetition period
c. Frame rate
4. Pulse repetition frequency
What is the pulse repetition period? (B)
What are Leprechauns likely base on?
What are Celtic Fairies (will accept just fairies)
Biology
Which of the following statements concerning growth hormone is NOT true?
A. Overproduction of growth hormone in adults results in acromegaly.
B. It promotes growth of bone and muscle.
C. It is produced by the hypothalamus but secreted by the pituitary.
D. A childhood deficiency in growth hormone results in dwarfism.
What is it's produced by the hypothalamus but secreted by the pituitary? (C)
Define the health outcomes of a group of individuals including the distribution of such outcomes within in the group.
HINT: ____ health
What is population health?
What is the muscular organ where the baby grows?
What is the uterus?
Which vein begins its journey at the medial malleolus of the ankle
a. Posterior tibial vein
b. great saphenous vein
c. anterior tibial vein
d. femoral vein
What is the posterior tibial vein? (A)
Where was the first St. Patrick's Day parade held?
Organic Chemistry
All of the following are true with respect to carbonyls EXCEPT:
A. the carbonyl carbon is electrophilic.
B. the carbonyl oxygen is electron-withdrawing.
C. a resonance structure of the functional group places a positive charge on the carbonyl carbon.
D. the π electrons are mobile and are pulled toward the carbonyl carbon.
What is the π electrons are mobile and are pulled toward the carbonyl carbon? (D)
Name two factors that are strong predictors of a person's access to resources and health status
What are education and income?
What are the primary "male" and "female" hormones?
Who is credited as being the father of medical ultrasound?
a. Karl Dussik
b. Ian Donald
C. Carl Hellmuth Hertz
d. John Wild
Who is John Wild?
True or False: The meal corned beef and cabbage came from Ireland.
If NOT, then where is it from?
FALSE, it's an American innovation
General Chemistry
Which of the following actions does NOT affect the equilibrium position of a reaction?
A. Adding or removing heat.
B. Adding or removing a catalyst.
C. Increasing or decreasing concentrations of reactants.
D. Increasing or decreasing volumes of reactants.
What is adding or removing a catalyst? (B)
What is the study of the distribution and determinants of health and disease in human populations and the application of this study to control health problems?
What is epidemiology?
What do hormonal contraceptives, such as the pill, contain?
HINT: type of HORMONE
What is a synthetic pregnancy hormone?
What is the long portion of the pancreas is adjacent to the posterior wall of the stomach antra?
a. body
b. period
c. ductus arteriosus
d. creatinine
What is the body? (A)
Where was St. Patrick born?
What is Britain (in either Scotland or Wales)
Physics
A man walks 30 m east and then 40 m north. What is the difference between his traveled distance and his displacement?
A. 0 m
B. 20 m
C. 50 m
D. 70 m
What is 20m? (B)
What are the three core functions of public health?
What is assessment, policy development, and assurance?
What event has already occurred to an oocyte that is going through Meiosis II?
What is fertilization?
In regards to pregnancy dating, this is based on a women's LMP, not the time of conception?
What is the gestational age?
What was St. Patricks actual name?
a. Patrick
b. Patricius
c. Maewyn
What is Maewyn (Maewyn Succat)