In a word, why is it that women who live in groups tend to develop synchrony in their menstrual cycles over time?
a) pheromones
b) sympathy
c) synesthesia
d) stereoscopy
ANS: A, It is believed that the release of certain pheromones can cause such physiological events as menstrual syncing and sexual attraction, perhaps even in human beings.
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a. men; larger c. men; smaller b. women; larger d. women, smaller
Connectionist models claim to be consistent with what scientists know about the brain. Assuming that this claim is valid, the recruitment of new hidden units in a connectionist model like Shultz's (1998) is analogous to ___
a. the formation of new synapses b. increases in the amount of information that can be held in working memory c. maturational increases in the speed of neural transmission d. the release of neurotransmitter into the synaptic cleft
Functional equivalence is best described as what?
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