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phenotype

Allen was adopted at an early age by a Japanese-American couple. As a result, he grew up speaking both Japanese and English fluently. In terms of genetics, this manifestation of Allen's ability to speak is called _____.

. tolerance

Darryl first had an alcoholic drink when he was 17 years old. He recalls "feeling tipsy" right after finishing the first drink. Now, after almost five years of habitually drinking alcohol, he needs to consume four or five glasses of the same drink to get the "tipsy feeling." In other words, Darryl's _________ for alcohol has increased.

thalamus

If the __________ is damaged, a person can form visual memories but not verbal memorie

repression

In Freud's psychodynamic theory, _________ is the ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from conscious awareness.

of the consequences of theirbehavior

In operant conditioning, an organism learns to do or not do thingsbecause_____.

nicotine

Side effects of _________ include cancer, heart disease, lung and respiratory diseases.

Frequency theory appears to account only for pitch perception between 20 and a few hundred cycles per second

In the context of auditory perception, which of the following statements is true?

On average, people can tell when a tone rises or falls in pitch by an extremely small one-third of 1%

In the context of difference threshold, identify the correct statement.

retroactive interference

Joy speaks Spanish as she has learnt the language in school. She is now learning to speak French. She often notices that sometimes when speaking in Spanish, French words come to mind. This is an example of _____.

Hashish

Which of the following hallucinogens is derived from the resin of the Cannabis sativa plant?

The emphasis on unconscious ideas and impulses

Which of the following is a defining feature of psychoanalysis?

Gender

Which of the following is an important factor emphasized by the sociocultural perspective in understanding behavior and mental processes?

Babbling is inborn and prelinguistic

Which of the following is true in the context of children babbling?

It holds that the innate factors of children cause them to attend to and acquire language in certain ways.

Which of the following statements is true about the nativist theory of language development?

Structuralism argues that the mind consists of three basic elements: sensations, feelings, and images

Which of the following statements is true of structuralism?

The action potential

Which of the following terms describes the electrical impulse that provides the basis for the conduction of a neural impulse along an axon of a neuron?

semantic memory

. Christopher knows a lot of facts about the planet earth. He knows that the circumference of the earth is 40,030 km even though he did not personally measure the circumference of the earth. This knowledge is referred to as _____.

. proactive interference

. Jonah loves learning new languages. In high-school, he learned French and in college, he learned Italian. Sometimes, when he has a problem remembering Italian words, French words come to mind instead. This is an example of _____.

Critical thinking

. _________ is defined as a way of evaluating the claims and comments of other people that involves skepticism and examination of evidence

Priming

. _________ is the activation of specific associations in memory, often as a result of repetition and without making a conscious effort to access the memory.

hippocampus

Alicia recently had a bad car accident. Since then, she cannot recall events that occurred after the accident. However, she can recall events that took place before the accident. She recognizes her family and friends and important dates, such as her birthday and her marriage anniversary, but has to be constantly reintroduced to new people in her life. Alicia has most likely sustained damage to her _____.

Humanistic-existential

The _____ perspective is grounded in the work of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

pituitary gland

The _________ lies below the hypothalamus and is dubbed the "master gland."

complementary colors

The colors across from one another on the color wheel are labeled _________.

Heritability

_________ is the degree to which the variations in a trait from one person to another can be attributed to, or explained by, genetic factors.


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