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100
What did Douglass demand when he would have his image taken?
No props, and he refused to smile
100
What is the Federal Reserve System, or “the Fed”?
The central bank of the U.S.
100
What is whisking?
When whiskers are moved back and forth via little muscles in the skin to scan the environment
100
The melodic themes that John Williams added to Star Wars were a return to what venerable technique?
Leitmotifs
100
What is the distance from (11, 19) to (5, 11)?
10
200
Who is subject of the Daguerreotype in Figure on page 98 by J. T. Zealy?
A black man named Jack
200
When was the Fed established?
1913
200
For the somatosensory system, what is the “environmental input”?
information detected by the skin and the body
200
John Williams argued to George Lucas that original music would help Star Wars achieve what important goal?
Thematic unity
200
Find the center of a circle defined by the equation x2 + (y − 7)2 = 18.
(0, 7)
300
What did Douglass call photography?
The most “democratic” medium
300
Define central bank.
Institution created to oversee the banking system and regulate the supply of money
300
What is a critical period?
a time period during which plasticity is uniquely high and the developmental fate is influenced potentially for an individual’s entire lifetime based on the environmental inputs they receive.
300
Approximately how many leitmotifs did a Tufts professor transcribe from the various Star Wars movies?
Almost 60
300
Given the circle (x − 3)2 + (y + 1)2 = 256, what is the radius?
16
400
Who came in as the second most photographed person of the 19th century? And third?
George Custer with 155, and Abraham Lincoln with 126
400
What constitutes the Fed?
12 regional banks, and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C.
400
What is a barrel?
when a touch from each whisker is represented in its own little dot in the rodent’s primary somatosensory cortex
400
What is the first leitmotif to be heard in Star Wars?
The main title theme, also known as “Luke’s Theme”
400
What is the center of a circle with equation y = √25 − x2 − 8?
(0, −8)
500
What was Douglass’s serious expression and indication of?
His conviction for abolition: portraying himself as an intellectual and a human being
500
Who runs the Fed?
Board of governors consisting of seven members serving 4 year terms, appointed by the President, and confirmed by the Senate
500
What is a barrel field?
an area of a rodent’s primary somatosensory cortex representing the touch or somatosensory inputs of each of their whiskers
500
John Williams worried that the music for the “Main Title” may be __________, meaning that it was too complicated.
overwritten
500
What is the coordinate equation of the circle centered at (−2, 4) with radius √5?
(x + 2)2 + (y − 4)2 = 5