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| A neural impluse is initiated when a neuron's charge momentarily becomes less negative, or even positive. This event is called: |
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| Neurons convey information about the strength of stimuli by varying: |
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| the rate at which they fire action potentials. |
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| Alterations in activitiy at dopamine synapses have been implicated in the development of: |
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| Jim Just barely avoided a head on collision on a narrow road. With heart pounding, hands shaking, and body perspiring, Jim recoginizes that these are signs of the body's fight-or-flight response, which is controlled by the: |
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| Sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system |
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| The hindbrain consists of the: |
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| Cerebellum, medulla, and pons. |
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| Juan is watching a basketball game. The neural implusles from his eyes will ultimately travel to his primary visual cortex, but first they must pass through the: |
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| The __________ love is to hearing as the occipital lobe is to vision. |
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| Paul has profound difficulty producing spoken language. If his problem is attributed to brain damage, the damage would probably be found in: |
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| Sounds presented to to the right ear are registered: |
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| more quickly than in the left hemisphere. |
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| In people whose corpus callosums have notnot been severed, verbal stimuli are identified more quickly and more accurately: |
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| When sent to the left hemisphere first |
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| Hormones are to the endocrine system as ____________ are to the nervous system |
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| Jenny has brown hair and blue eyes and is 5'8" tall. What is being described is Jenny's: |
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| Adopted children's similarity to their biological parents is generally attributed to _____________; adopted children's similarity to their adoptive parents is generally attributed to ___________. |
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| heredity; the environment |
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| In evolutionary theory, ___________ refers to the reproductive success of an individual organism relative to the average reproductive success in the population. |
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| For which of the following ssertions is the empirical evidence strongest? |
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| The two cerebral himispheres are specialiezed to handle different types of cognitive tasks. |
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