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The somatic nervous system is a component of the __________ nervous system.

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Peripheral

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The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems work together to keep you in a steady internal state called:

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Homeostasis

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Messages are transmitted from your spinal cord to your heart muscles by the:

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Autonomic nervous system

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The knee-jerk reflex is controlled by interneurons in the:

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Spinal cord

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An undersupply of serotonin is most clearly linked to:

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Depression

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Which brain structure receives information from all the senses except smell?

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Thalamus

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Along with the basal ganglia, the _________ enables nonverbal learning and skill memory.

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Cerebellum

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Severing a cat's reticular formation form higher brain regions causes the cat to:

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Lapse into a coma

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The amygdala consists of emotion-linked neural clusters in the:

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Limbic system

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S. M. is a patient who has been called "the woman with no fear," even of being threatened with a gun. Her fearlessness is best attributed to damage to her:

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Amygdala

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Auditory stimulation is processed in the __________ lobes.

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Temporal

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The capacity of a brain area to recognize in response to damage is known as:

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Plasticity

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The occipital lobes are to ________ as the temporal lobes are to ___________.

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Seeing; hearing

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The ability to simultaneously copy different figures with the right and left hand is most characteristic of those whose ___________ has been cut.

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Corpus callosum

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Damage to the left cerebral hemisphere is most likely to reduce people's ability to:

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Solve arithmetic problems

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After gazing at an angry face, you immediately turn to look at a morphed blend of an angry and a scared face. The face appears scared to you. This best illustrates the impact of:

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Sensory adaptation

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People's response to subliminal priming indicates that:

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They are capable of processing information without any conscious awareness of doing so.

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Bottom-up processing involves analysis that begins with the:

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Sensory receptors

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After listening to your high-volume car stereo for 15 minutes, you fail to realize how loudly the music is blasting. This best illustrates:

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Sensory adaptation

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Normal visual sensation in this absence of complete visual perception is best illustrated by:

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Prosopagnosia

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Humans experience the longest visible electromagnetic waves as the color ____________ and the shortest visible waves as ___________.

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Red; blue-violet

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Visually perceiving words as distinct from the surrounding white paper on which they are printed best illustrates:

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Figure-ground perception

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The colored muscle that constricts when you feel disgust or enter a dark room is the:

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Iris

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Evidence that some cones are especially sensitive to red light, others to green light, and still others to blue light most directly supportive of:

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The Young-Helmholtz theory

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The axons of ganglion cells converge to form:

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The optic nerve

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Place theory suggests that:

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The pitch we hear is related to the place where the cochlea's basilar membrane is stimulated

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As a rock musician who has experienced prolonged exposure to high-amplitude sounds, Rodney is beginning to lose his hearing. It is most likely that this hearing loss involves problems in the:

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Cochlea

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The volley principle is most directly relevant to our perception of:

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Pitch

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Sensory receptor cells that project antenna-like hairs are located within:

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Taste buds

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Andre claims that he can make a broken watch begin to run again simply by entering a state of intense mental concentration. Andre is claiming to possess the power of:

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Psychokinesis

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The pop-out phenomenon illustrates that some stimuli almost inevitably trigger:

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Selective attention

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Compared with parallel processing, sequential processing tends to be _________ conscious and better for solving ___________ problems.

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More; novel

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The interdisciplinary study of the linkages between brain activity and mental processes is known as:

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Cognitive neuroscience

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Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus is called:

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Selective attention

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One study simultaneously delivered a recording of men talking in participants' one ear and a recording of women talking in participants' other ear. When participants were assigned to pay attention to the women, 70 percent failed to hear one of the men repeatedly say "I'm a gorilla." This failure best illustrated:

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Inattentional deafness

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Compared with evening-loving "night owls," those who are morning types tend to perform ___________ in school and tend to be __________ vulnerable to depression.

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Better; less

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People who regularly sleep less than normal experience an _________ risk depression and an __________ risk of gaining weight.

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Increased; increased

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According to Freud, the dreams of adults can be traced back to:

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Erotic wishes

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Research on sleep and dreaming confirms that:

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The brain's auditory cortex responds to sound stimuli even during sleep

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Increased activity in the __________ during REM sleep may best explain why dream images are often accompanied by a strong emotional tone.

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Amygdala

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Kevin is preoccupied with gambling, and his persistent urges to gamble are so strong that he continues even after losing large sums of money. Kevin most clearly shows signs of:

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Addiction

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Suspiciousness, convulsions, and cardiac arrest are aversive reactions most closely associated with the use of:

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Cocaine

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Depressants are drugs such as:

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Barbiturates and opiates

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Repeated use of an opiate:

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Decreases the brain's productions of endorphins

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16-year-old Bethany is becoming increasingly concerned about her use of marijuana on weekends. To reduce her use of this drug Bethany should:

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Stop associating with friends who use marijuana

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