You Work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

question 43

Essay

You work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.You have been called to a remote area of Uganda to study a mysterious disease that is causing respiratory ailments in a small village.You isolate a bacterium from several patients that seems like a good candidate for the pathogen.How can you determine whether this bacterium is causing the illness?

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Definitions:

Psychological Experiments

Research methods in psychology that involve manipulating one variable to determine its effect on another variable.

Generalizability

The extent to which the findings of a study can be applied to other groups, settings, or times, beyond the specific conditions of the original study.

Analogue Methodologies

Research methods that use simulations or approximations of real-world situations to study psychological phenomena.

Disclosure

The act of revealing or making known previously private, secret, or confidential information.