The Traits of an Individual Organism Can Be Influenced by Both

question 10

Multiple Choice

The traits of an individual organism can be influenced by both genes and the ________.

• A) genome
• B) environment
• C) population size
• D) genetic variation within a population

Understand the professional and scientific nature of psychology and its application to daily life and societal issues.

Grasp the impact of positive psychology on the field and its emphasis on strengths, well-being, and positive individual traits.

Appreciate the interdisciplinary nature of psychology and its relationship with other fields.

Understand the importance of empirical evidence and scientific methods in psychology.

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Definitions:

ICD-9-PCS

International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Procedure Coding System; a system used in the United States for classifying medical procedures for billing and documentation.

Diagnosis Code

Diagnosis Code refers to a code assigned to a diagnosis based on a standardized system, such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), used for healthcare billing and statistics.

Upcoding

Reporting a higher-level code than is appropriate for the service that was rendered, resulting in higher reimbursement; when a facility coder assigns a diagnosis code that does not match patient documentation, with the intention of increasing reimbursement to the facility through the DRG system, serious penalties and fines will be levied against the facility for submitting fraudulent claims.

DRG System

Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) system is a way of categorizing hospital cases into groups for the purposes of payment, reflecting typical resource usage for a stay.