A brain-imaging method called __________ takes advantage of the magnetic properties of different atoms to take sharp, three-dimensional images of the brain.

Ashlee is a single mother living in a project in a poor section of the city. She has addiction issues and just lost custody of her three children. What type of mental health professional is most likely to get involved in Ashlee’s situation?

Dr. Jones has individuals run on a treadmill for 0, 15, or 30 minutes and then measures their self-reported mood. In this hypothetical study, the independent variable is the __________.

Because they have similar chemical structures, morphine and heroin are able to lock into receptor sites for __________.

Curare, a poison, works by __________.

In a laboratory, smokers are asked to “drive” using a computerized driving simulator equipped with a stick shift and a gas pedal. The object is to maximize the distance covered by driving as fast as possible on a winding road while avoiding rear-end collisions. Some of the participants smoke a real cigarette immediately before climbing into the driver’s seat. Others smoke a fake cigarette without nicotine. You are interested in comparing how many collisions the two groups have. In this study, the participants who smoke a cigarette without nicotine make up the __________.

A good control group __________.

The administration of Midwest State University wants to know if the arrangement of chairs affects student participation in classrooms. What would be a good operationalization of the dependent variable in an experiment designed to measure this relationship?

Which of the following regions contains the somatosensory cortex?

The word correlation is often used as a synonym for __________.