________________ used the Golgi staining technique to examine individual neurons in the brain
a. Camillo Golgi
b. Jan Purkinje
c. Hermann von Helmholtz
d. Luigi Galvani
e. Santiago y Cajal
Answer: e. Santiago y Cajal
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b. Those people have a tendency to become frightened easily. c. Those people were excited in some other way at the time of the measurement. d. We cannot draw any of these conclusions.
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your car on purpose. It is probably no accident that you lost your job this week either; someone there is out to get you!" Roger's quick assumptions about others' intentions indicate a ____. a. Type A attributional bias b. hostile expectation bias c. hostile perception bias d. fundamental attribution error
Regarding caffeine, which of the following statements is FALSE?
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