Until recently, c-sections were risky surgical procedures because the field of medicine lacked ____
a. sharp scalpels and rubber gloves
b. sterile procedures and antibiotics
c. anesthesia and epidurals
d. a basic understanding of anatomy and physiology
Answer: B
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a. temporal b. frontal c. parietal d. occipital
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a. this heuristic is consistently more accurate than the representativeness heuristic. b. we use this heuristic when we try to estimate probability by thinking of relevant examples. c. this heuristic emphasizes that we ignore the conjunction fallacy. d. this heuristic explains why we typically provide confidence intervals that are too narrow.
The hypnagogic state of consciousness occurs:
A) as we begin to fall asleep. B) while we are dreaming. C) in the deepest stages of sleep. D) as we are waking up.
"Permeability" refers to the ability of the cell's
A. axons to form connections with other neurons. B. microtubules to transport substances within the cell. C. dendrites to receive information from other neurons. D. membrane to control the movement of substances into or out of the cell.