Social Determinants Exam 2

Which of the following levels of racism correlates with this example below:

Teachers assuming African American Students are worse than white students causing them to get more in trouble.

• Institutionalized Racism

• Personally-Mediated Racism

• Internalized Racism

• None of the above

n an experiment, scientists trained mice to fear the smell of cherry blossoms by pairing the smell with an electric shock. The offspring of these mice were born with a fear of the smell of cherry blossoms. This phenomenon is an example of....

• Phenotypic Expression

• Epigenetics

• Natural Selection and Evolution

• Genotype modification

T/F The idea that genes are set in stone has been disproven

• True

• False

When considering child development, experiences that children have rearrange the chemical marks on their genes. This explains why genetically identical twins can exhibit different behaviors, health, and achievement. This accumulation of changes is referred to as a child’s ________.

• Genes

• Epigenetics

• Epigenome

• Inheritance

T/F Low levels of cortisol, high risk of obesity, hypertension, and insulin resistance are more likely to occur in Holocaust descendants due to epigenetics.

• True

• False

What were some of the effects the factory workers in the Unnatural Causes video faced after being laid off?

• Depression/Suicide

• Obesity

• Organ Failure

• All of the above

This type of event occurs before birth and explains that adverse environments that the mother lives in can negatively affect the child and the development of the brain. Example: grandmaternal smoking during the mother’s fetal period was associated with a greater risk of asthma in the grandchildren

• Prenatal event

• Perinatal Event

(a super critical period immediately before and immediately after birth) What you eat, where you live, who you interact with, when you sleep, etc... all influence your genes and which ones are turned on and off over time.  

• Prenatal event

• Perinatal Event

Which of the following job types has the worst outcomes?

• High Demand, High Control

• Low demand, Low control

• high demand, low control

• low demand, high control

Which nutrition programs provide nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of needy families.

• WIC

• SNAP

• National School Lunch Program

• Afterschool Snack and Meal program