Located in the __________ are two regions that serve as "on and off" switches for eating behaviors
a. temporal lobes
b. frontal lobes
c. hypothalamus
d. thalamus
Answer: c
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An anthropology professor prides herself in her ability to remember the names of her students, past and present. However, she finds that the longer she is in the profession, the harder it becomes to remember the names of present students, because they become confused with her past students. The professor is having trouble because of:
A. selective forgetting B. failure to encode C. retroactive interference D. proactive interference
Regarding sleep, memory, and the interference theory of forgetting, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Sleeping after one studies can reduce the forgetting caused by interference. b. REM sleep and dreaming appear to help us form certain types of memories. c. Forgetting due to interference appears to apply only to sensory memory and not to short-term and long-term memory. d. It is not completely clear if new memories alter existing memory traces or if they make it harder to retrieve earlier memories.
Danny had a head injury that resulted in his inability to speak fluently. He would mix up words in a sentence, so instead of saying "Mommy pick me up" he would say "up pick Mommy me." What area of Danny’s brain was damaged?
A. the prefrontal cortex
B. Wernicke's area
C. the temporal lobe
D. Broca's area
When do people in cultures with arranged marriages believe love develops?
a. it never develops b. before the marriage c. after the marriage d. during the marriage after the first child is born