Which part of the brain regulates many biological motives, including hunger, thirst, and the sex drive?
a. thalamus
b. hypothalamus
c. midbrain
d. hippocampus
ANSWER: b
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a. make a lot of money. b. separate responsibilities for bills. c. communicate about planning and expenditures. d. build up a savings.
Which of the following is LEAST true about eyewitness testimony?
a. Jurors and law enforcement professionals rely heavily on eyewitness testimony when they are deciding whether someone is guilty. b. Jurors tend to overestimate the accuracy of eyewitnesses. c. People are better at recognizing faces of people of their own race than faces of people of different races. d. Writing down a description of someone you saw will make it easier for you to recognize that person later.
In cultural-familial retardation, the cause of the retardation is ______
a. prenatal drug use by the mother b. infection and high fever during infancy c. ingestion of environmental toxins d. not traceable to any biological source
Neoteny refers to:
A. slow brain maturation after birth B. any species that has small brains. C. the failure of a brain to develop. D. animals that are able to fend for themselves after birth.