Empty stomachs contract, causing both hunger pangs and the secretion of chemical messages that signal the brain to initiate feeding behavior. This is an example of ________.
A. a genetic disorder that results in persistent feelings of intense hunger
B. the physiological and psychological causes of eating disorders
C. how physiological mechanisms serve as the basis for hunger
D. the amount of energy that the body spends to metabolize food
C. how physiological mechanisms serve as the basis for hunger
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a. through the influence of genetics. b. by spending too much time working. c. by attempting to discourage unnecessary competitiveness during sports. d. by modeling healthy exercise habits.
The__________is a decision-making heuristic in which people make judgments about samples according to the populations they appear to depict
A) anchoring heuristic B) availability heuristic C) representativeness heuristic D) adjustment heuristic E) Select
Your partner who is under the influence of alcohol may act more sexually aggressive than normal because ____
a. ?alcohol increases sexual arousal b. ?your partner is likely experiencing the effects of Korsakoff’s syndrome c. ?of the hallucinogenic effects of alcohol d. ?alcohol causes us to shed our inhibitions about things we normally would not do
Which descriptive statistic is a measure of variability?
A) the mode B) the mean C) the median D) the range