Dr. Nolen wants to know the effects of removing portions of one's hippocampi on long-term memory, in the hopes of one day finding a cure for patients with Alzheimer's disease. The subjects for his study are most likely to be ___________
A) humans
B) nonhuman animals
C) robots
D) insects
Answer: B
Rationale: Some research cannot ethically be conducted on humans, so nonhuman animals (most often mice or rats) are used instead. When researching human diseases, the closer the animal is to humans, the more likely the results will generalize to people.
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a. psychoanalysis, meditation, and hypnosis b. economic behavior, political behavior, and criminal behavior c. social cognition, biological influences on behavior, and the self d. personality measurement, organizational behavior, and spirituality
The individual whose name is most clearly linked with the triarchic theory of intelligence is:
a. Charles Spearman b. Howard Gardner c. Robert Sternberg d. Arthur Jensen
Patsy and Terry are fraternal twins. This type of twinning results from __________
A) a zygote that duplicates and separates into two clusters of cells B) the fertilization of one ovum by two Y-bearing sperm C) the release and fertilization of two ova D) the fertilization of one ovum by two X-bearing sperm
Which brain area is involved in female sexual behavior?
A. sexually dimorphic nucleus B. ventromedial hypothalamus C. paraventricular nucleus D. median preoptic nucleus