The reason that there are three semicircular canals is so that ______________
a) we have one canal to sense motion in each of the three planes
b) we can see the world in three dimensions
c) we can detect sound locations in the three-dimensional world
d) we have an extra if one is broken
A
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a. Provide people with feedback about their impact on the environment. b. Make people's environment-related behaviors public. c. Focus on specific actions rather than general or abstract behaviors. d. Make nonemotional appeals to general attitudes in the public.
While at the hospital attending to his mother, Peter meets a woman named Lea, whose father was diagnosed with whole brain death following cardiac arrest. She explains to Peter that her father requires a respirator ____.
A. because he suffered irreversible damage to his brain stem B. because his heart is too weak to supply blood to the brain C. to stimulate contractions of the heart muscle D. because his cerebral cortex cannot coordinate respiratory and cardiovascular functions
In terms of self-regulation and independence, adolescents who have ________ parents fare best
a. permissive b. authoritarian c. authoritative d. disengaged
One parent is homozygous for blue eyes and the other parent is heterozygous for brown eyes. Which of the following is NOT a possible outcome for their children?