Humans expend most of their energy on which activity?
a. walking, running, and other forms of locomotion
b. in the beating of their hearts and blood circulation
c. propagating action potentials in the billions of neurons in the nervous system
d. maintaining basal metabolism
d
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a. True b. False
A psychologist wants to conduct research on cerebral asymmetry. She wants to examine
A. brain damage. B. intelligence. C. mental retardation. D. differences in right- and left-hemisphere activity.
Danyon is a popular student who plays basketball and excels at track and field. He describes his friends and other students on the sports teams at school as jocks, but doesn't feel that this label really describes him. Most likely, Danyon may believe that
a. too unique to be labeled as any one thing. b. not as good at sports as his friends. c. being ostracized from the group. d. none of the above.
Millie feels as if she is a robot, watching herself from outside her body as she begins kissing
her new boyfriend. This feeling of being in a dream or operating on "automatic pilot" happens to her whenever she begins to get emotionally aroused. She appears to be suffering from ______. a. dissociative identity disorder c. depersonalization-derealization disorder b. dissociative fugue d. unconscious realization