Rimonabant is a CB1 receptor antagonist that was used as an anti-obesity agent. What was the drug removed from the global market in 2009?
A. it was ineffective as an anti-obesity agent
B. concern about dangerous psychological side effects
C. marijuana became legal in 20 U.S. states
D. dronabinol was found to be more effective for obesity
B
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a. educated guesses b. the first step to proving a fact is true c. theories d. research methods
G. Stanley Hall saw adolescence as a period characterized by ________
a. a few "bumps in the road," but otherwise being relatively calm b. a period of severe "storm and stress," fraught with passion and rebellion c. casual relationships and an easy transition from childhood to adulthood d. a period of intense, but controlled, personal growth and exploration
When people in Western countries try to find reasons for someone else's behavior, they tend to:
a. ignore dispositional attributions in favor of situational attributions. b. leap to the attribution that people's behaviors correspond to the context. c. explore the personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation. d. overestimate personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation.
A few early studies on brain lateralization wrongly gave rise to the idea that humans are either predominantly right-brained or left-brained without much sharing of information between the two hemispheres. It is likely that these early studies were performed on:
A. people with damage to the corpus callosum. B. people who were depressed. C. children younger than 5 years of age. D. people with an IQ between 80 and 110.