Tess, a college sophomore, does not smoke, drink alcohol or take recreational drugs. She does, however, procrastinate in studying for her exams and drinks excessive amounts of coffee and diet colas in order to stay awake to cram for those exams. Caffeine acts as an ______________ for adenosine, providing Tess with more available energy.
A. antagonist
B. agonist
C. excitatory drug
D. epinephrine
A. antagonist
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A. Genital B. Phallic C. Latency D. Pubertal
The primary difference between the analytical and empirical approaches to scientific investigation is that
a. empirical approaches attempt to predict events on the basis of theoretical models. b. analytical predictions are based on events accompanying the event of interest. c. analytical approaches are guided by theory. d. empirical approaches provide a deeper understanding of phenomena than do analytical approaches.
Personal experiences, which are examples of ____ information, are encoded ____ into long-term memory
a. semantic; with effort c. episodic; with effort b. semantic; automatically d. episodic; automatically
Cindy brought a fake rubber snake into the lab where her rhesus monkeys lived. Most of the monkeys responded with fear vocalizations, but one did not. Cindy knew this monkey had been in a lesion experiment prior to coming to her lab, but she didn't know what type of lesion had been done. What would you tell Cindy about her monkey?
A. He probably didn't have a lesion at all, as ignoring fake snakes is considered normal for rhesus monkeys. B. He probably had a lesion in the hippocampus of both hemispheres. C. He probably had a lesion in the amygdala of both hemispheres. D. He probably had a lesion of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus.