BPK 140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-7: Blind Experiment, Atherosclerosis, Cell Nucleus

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Biomedical Physio & Kines
• Course: BPK 140
• Professor: Stephen Brown

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Bpk 140 vocabulary chapter 1 7. Infant mortality rate death of infants in first year of life per 1000 births ( ex. Models a representation or way of looking at things. Signs things one can observe or measure (ex. spots on the skin) Symptoms things one feels; feelings that cannot be measured or observed ex. nausea. Blind experiment an experiment using a placebo so the subject does not know which treatment they are receiving. Control group a group of experimental subjects intended to be the same as the experimental group except for the factor to which the experimental group is to be exposed. Double blind experiment neither the subjects nor the experimenter know which group received the placebo and who received the real treatment. Epidemiology the branch of health science concerned with the distribution and determinants of disease; medical detective work. Experimental group the group that receives the experimental treatment.