It's midnight and you are alone in your room studying. You hear a loud crash outside your room and your whole body reacts instantly. Your pupils dilate, your heart rate increases, your blood pressure rises, adrenaline surges through your body,
and your senses sharpen as you begin anxiously looking for whatever caused the crash. These reactions are produced by the ______.
a. central nervous system
b. somatic nervous system
c. sympathetic division
d. parasympathetic division
c
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A. controversial B. popular C. rejected D. neglected
A car is rapidly approaching an old lady crossing Hollywood Boulevard. Alan pushes the lady out of the way and is himself hit by the car, but saves her life. This is an example of:
A. empathy B. prosocial behavior C. diffusion of responsibility D. reciprocity
The philosopher Hannah Arendt, when covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann, used the phrase "the banality of evil" to explain how so many people in Nazi Germany supervised the deportation and death of millions of Jews. What does this phrase mean?
What will be an ideal response?
Using different rules for insanity leads to major differences in verdicts.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)