After the picture of a familiar object is flashed in the left visual field of a split-brain patient, the patient can ________.
The most prevalent estrogen is ________.
The most prevalent estrogen is ________.
Evidence from the sham-eating study of Weingarten and Kuliko…
Evidence from the sham-eating study of Weingarten and Kulikovsky (1989) suggests that the amount that we eat at a meal is influenced by ________.
Neuroimaging studies with schizophrenia patients indicate th…
Neuroimaging studies with schizophrenia patients indicate that ________.
Olds and Milner argued that the brain circuits that support…
Olds and Milner argued that the brain circuits that support intracranial self-stimulation are the same ones that mediate ________.
Karl Lashley studied how memories (or engrams) were stored i…
Karl Lashley studied how memories (or engrams) were stored in the brain by training rats to run a maze and then creating lesions of various sizes in different locations in the brain. When he tested the rats again, he found that the degree of the rats’ impairments on maze running was related to the size but not the location of the lesion. From this, Lashley (wrongly) concluded that the brain works on the principles of ________.
There is good evidence in some species that testosterone doe…
There is good evidence in some species that testosterone does not masculinize the brain directly—it is first converted to estradiol, which then masculinizes the brain. This hypothesis is called the ________ hypothesis.
Although ________ is classified as a depressant, it has stim…
Although ________ is classified as a depressant, it has stimulant effects at low doses.
A mad scientist has created a new species of organism. It i…
A mad scientist has created a new species of organism. It is a unicellular blob the size of a small dog. This new species, “Blobbert ” eats everyday but eventually Blobbert dies. Speculate about why Blobbert died.
List the two physical/structural differences between DNA and…
List the two physical/structural differences between DNA and RNA. Answers must be detailed in order to earn full credit. For example if DNA contains molecule A then what molecule does RNA contain?