Distinguish between the terms anabolic and androgenic when referring to steroid effects. What natural male hormone does both? What happens if women use anabolic steroids?

What will be an ideal response?


Anabolic effects are those that increase muscle; androgenic effects are masculinizing. Testosterone does both. Because anabolic steroids still have some androgenic effects, women may experience enlarged clitoris, increased facial hair, and deepening of the voice.

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a. ?mentalism b. ?empiricism c. ?positivism d. ?materialism e. ?None of the choices are correct.

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Jeffrey has excellent verbal skills and seems to be able to recall things he has heard without any problem. However, he has a terrible sense of direction and almost always gets lost, even when he is going to some place he has been before. Baddeley might suggest that Jeffrey has these problems because of inefficiencies in his:

a. central executive b. visuospatial sketchpad c. phonological loop d. short-term memory span

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Which contemporary view of behavior is considered reductionistic and mechanistic and seeks to explain behavior through the activity of genetics, the endocrine system, and one's physiology?

a. behavioristic b. biopsychological c. psychodynamic d. humanistic

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Regarding violent and nonviolent events, people

A. are more accurate in reporting violent events. B. are more accurate in reporting nonviolent events. C. are extremely accurate in reporting both types of events. D. are extremely inaccurate in reporting both types of events.

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