BPK 140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Blind Experiment, Tylenol (Brand), Vocab (Song)

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Bpk 140: current issues in health chapter review questions & vocab. A placebo is something that has no physiological effect, but which subjects in an experiment cannot distinguish from the real treatment or manipulation. (b) give a couple of examples other than the ones given in the book. One: taking tylenol and feeling the relief effects immediately, when in reality it takes 30 minutes to kick in. Two: (a) explain what is meant by a (cid:498)blind(cid:499) study. Animal experimentation, tissue cultures, and computer modelling: explain the difference between an experimental study and an epidemiological study. List the six criteria given for determining if an association or correlation between two variables means that one causes the other. A friend once told me that his father used to go to the sauna everyday after exercising. But he then got a new job which started at the usual time that he went to the sauna.

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