Which principle of consciousness addresses changes in consciousness due to illness, disease, or traumatic injuries that affect the brain?
A. Consciousness is produced by brain activity.
B. Consciousness is dynamic.
C. Consciousness involves both arousal and awareness.
D. Consciousness can be altered.
Answer: D
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The 2003 BALCO scandal involved a laboratory that was
A. accused of taking bribes not to report positive urine tests. B. selling amphetamines to professional football players. C. importing testosterone from China. D. selling a previously undetectable steroid to baseball players.
According to Table 12.1 in the text, which research method is most likely to meet (at least moderately well) all three goals of generalizability to people, generalizability to situations, and precision?
A) laboratory experiment B) population survey C) correlational study D) quasi-experiment
Which of the following is true of the evolution of the human brain?
a. The human brain is smaller than that of any other primate. b. Comparisons of brain size within the primate family require an adjustment for body size. c. The size of primate brains has shrunk over the course of evolutionary history. d. Primate brain size increases depended on the elimination of duplicate master genes. e. Inactivation of the ghrelin gene likely makes chimpanzee brains larger than human brains.
The brain stem is critical to survival because it
A) regulates higher cognitive functioning. B) mediates responses between the autonomic and peripheral nervous system. C) controls most of the biological functions associated with living. D) contains the area known as the cerebral cortex.