Human Biology
The ________ helps maintain the body’s level of homeostasis and regulates things like body temperature and appetite.
Hypothalamus
You see a billboard on the side of the road, and you drive past this same billboard everyday on your way home (for the past year), but when someone asked you what the phone number was to call you couldn't recall the number listed on the billboard. This is an example of what?
Subliminal processing - research suggests that information that is not consciously noticed still receives some minimal level of processing.
Comparing which apartment to lease and contrasting the different contracts that come with each purchase in an example of using ________ intelligence.
Analytical intelligence is involved when you analyze and evaluate information, such as comparing and contrasting cell phone contracts.
Which hair cells are connected to nerve endings that transduce the wave energy into a neurochemical signal?
Cochlea
Please explain "mechanoreceptors" either what they do, detect, or give a demonstrative example.
These cells report interactions with chemical substances (e.g., the taste buds contain chemoreceptors).
What is a morpheme?
A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that has some meaning, and “un” can serve as a prefix meaning “not.”
What do glial cells do?
They provide physical and metabolic support to neurons.
What is the importance of Weber's Law?
It states that the perception of change in any given stimulus is always dependent on what the stimulus is. Essentially, whether a change will be noticed is affected by how big, heavy, significant, etc. that something was beforehand and how significant the change.
The idea that you may not notice the change in volume in a loud, noisy, night club, but you would notice that change in a quiet place, like a library.
Reinforcement differs from punishment in that ________.
reinforcement is any outcome that leads to an increase in a behavior and punishment is an outcome that leads to a decrease in a behavior
It refers to the traits and features that are inherited through a person's genetics.
Hearing loss due to Ménière’s disease is associated with what/caused by what/due to what?
It's due to high pressure in the fluid of the inner ear.
What are the five stages of grief according to Kubler Ross?
- denial
- anger
- bargaining
- depression
- acceptance
What are the four stages of an action potential?
1. depolarization
2. repolarization
3. hyperpolarization
4. the refractory period
Frequency determines ____ not _____.
1. pitch
2. amplitude
Please, come draw a normally distributed bell curve with the appropriate z-scores/cut off points?