Week 8 Lectures

Question 1

What is the purpose of the Sanchez 2001 study?

Answer 1

Purpose of the reading is to describe the incentives used to increase blood donation
and relate incentive types to future blood donation intent

Question 2

What are some statistics of transfusions?

Answer 2

5 million US patients receive blood every year and uses blood banking.

Question 3

What is blood banking?

Answer 3

Blood banking is to collect, process, and store safe blood and there are 7 million yearly donors

Question 4

What is the purpose of Nudge Ch. 6?

Answer 4

The purpose of the chapter was to describe curation and make-it-fun features of good nudges

Question 5

What is the purpose of Werner Ch. 8?

Answer 5

The purpose is to reveal how to measure medicine and how to instruct when to give medicine

Question 6

What are some types of stimuli?

Answer 6

Mechanical, thermal, and chemical

Question 7

What is mechanical stimuli?

Answer 7

Pressure, vibration, and electrical charge

Question 8

What is thermal stimuli?

Answer 8

Temperature change

Question 9

What is stimuli?

Answer 9

Change in the local environment and arouses sense organ response

Question 10

What is chemical stimuli?

Answer 10

molecular chaneg

Question 11

What is the light stimulus response?

Answer 11

Light changes-pupil changes size. More light, smaller pupil to reduce light entry and less light-large pupil

Question 12

What is a reflex action?

Answer 12

A category of organism response that maintains physiologic homeostasis
and is inherited for basic self-defense/survival

Question 13

What is the pupil?

Answer 13

The hole in the center of the iris. The muscles of iris control pupil size and pupil size adjusts light on retina(back part of the eye)

Question 14

What is the event response latency used for light reflex?

Answer 14

Milliseconds. On average 250 milliseconds it takes for the pupil to change

Question 15

What is the feline righting reflex?

Answer 15

A mechanical reflex where dropping a cat will always result in the cat landing on its paws.

Question 16

What is the salivary reflex?

Answer 16

A chemical reflex of breaking down food for digestion

Question 17

What is the cough reflex?

Answer 17

A mechanical reflex for keeping things out of the lungs and is used for lung defense

Question 18

What is the withdrawal reflex?

Answer 18

A mechanical reflex that prevents injury and causes to move away from something

Question 19

What is the shriver reflex?

Answer 19

A thermal reflex that is activated when cold and is to prevent hypothermia

Question 20

What is the startle reflex?

Answer 20

A reflex in babies to reach out when they feel as if they are falling but goes away with age

Question 21

Why are reflexes generalized?

Answer 21

They activate regardless since it does not take into account the environment.

Question 22

What is an example of a generalized reflex?

Answer 22

Chewing gum since it activates digestive enzymes reflex like real food does

Question 23

What is true about reflexes?

Answer 23

Reflex reaction differs across species due to inherited sense organ morphology
and process of maturation in organism

Question 24

What us true about reflex actions?

Answer 24

Reflex action is an inherited response to stimuli that aids survival by maintaining homeostasis. Reflexes depend on species characteristics(morphology and maturation).