______________ is the branch of medicine that is concerned with the study and treatment of mental disorders
What is this one?
Answer: Psychiatry
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In most mammals, females are unwilling to engage in sex EXCEPT when ______.
A. presented with an attractive mate B. there has been a prolonged time since last sexual episode C. it is during the time surrounding ovulation D. having received proper physical stimulation
A student has taken a summer job answering telephone calls for sales orders. He quickly learns that it is pretty easy to remember a customer's five-digit ZIP code and seven-digit phone number,
but it is much more difficult to keep track of a sixteen-digit credit card number. According to the conclusions of researcher George Miller, the student is having trouble with longer strings of numbers because a. the capacity of iconic memory is quite limited. b. memory span covers only five to nine items. c. memory span does not exist. d. the information is staying in his sensory memory.
According to Freud, children at this stage of development repress sexual interests and instead focus on developing cognitive and interpersonal skills:
a. genital b. latency c. phallic d. anal
Regarding the cerebral cortex of humans, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The cerebral cortex covers most of the brain with a mantle of gray matter. b. The cerebral cortex is only 10 millimeters thick (one third of an inch). c. The cerebral cortex contains 70 percent of the neurons in the central nervous system. d. The cerebral cortex shows corticalization.