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Absolute Thresholds - The minimum amount of stimulus energy that a person can detect. Accommodation - An individual's adjustment of his or her schemas to new information ADHD - One of the most common psychological disorders of childhood, in which individuals show one or more of the following: in...

Hypothesis vs Theory - hypothesis is and educated guess while a theory is concept that is well supported by observation, experiments, and data. Hardy-Weinberg - No migration, choice of mates random, mutation does not occur, no selection pressure Adaptive radiation - a population colonizes a new ...

Describe the events at the axon terminal that cause one neuron to release a neurotransmitter onto another. - The action potential travels down the axon and gets to the axon terminal, which causes calcium to enter the axon terinal, which causes the release of the neurotransmitter by exocytosis into...

political oppurtunity structure - the strengths and weaknesses in the existing political system that shape the options available to social movement actors global commodity chains - a transnational economic process that involves extracting natural resources, transforming them into goods, and marke...

Association - Relationship between classes and objects (Abstraction and Composition) Binary Search - Process of searching for an element in an array as long as they are in order and it starts in the middle of the array, uses that as a key and searches from there. ActionListener - Source on which ...

3rd degree burn (layer of skin affected) - epi and all of dermis/ nerve endings destroyed Compare and contrast an artery vs a vein. - artery - blood away from heart - oxygenated - thicker tunica media - smaller lumen vein - blood toward heart - deoxygenated - larger lumen - valves _______...

portion that anchors LPS molecule in lipid bilayer, can act as endotoxin when organism is killed & it is released into circulation (stimulate immune system to attack itself) - Lipid A Basic structure of peptidoglycan - Alternating NAG and NAM forming a glycan chain held together by terapeptide ch...

mead and devolopment of the self - believed that the self was created through social interaction and that this process started in childhood. Mead believed that the self develops through several stages, including the preparatory stage (imitating), the play stage (pretending), taking the role of th...

A phospholipid molecule has 1. a hydrophilic head that is repelled by water. 2. hydrophilic tails that are repelled by water. 3. a hydrophilic head that is attracted to water. 4. a hydrophobic head that is repelled by water. 5. hydrophobic tails that are attracted to water. - a hydrophilic head...

Romanticism - nineteenth century dramatic movement that imitated the episodic structure of Shakespeare, and theatrically focused on the gulf between human beings spiritual aspirations and physical limitations Black box - a theatre space that is open, flexible, and adaptable, usually without fixed...

Clientele groups - Special interest groups that benefit directly from the activities of a particular bureaucratic agency and therefore are strong advocates of the agency. district courts - the lowest federal courts; federal trials can be held only here Caucus - private meeting of a group of peopl...

In the process of nuclear fusion - two or more nuclei fuse or stick together to form a heavier nucleus whose combined mass is slightly less than the original nucleus Beneath the surface of which moon of Saturn is there evidence for the existence of a subsurface ocean of liquid water? - Enceladus ...

A defense mechanism by which a person is so traumatized by an event that he or she forgets it and then forgets the act of forgetting. According to psychodynamic theory, repression's main function is to protect the individual from threatening information. - Repressed memories A combination of com...

Displacement - psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet antisocial personality disorder - a personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of c...

A patient informs the nurse that he is having severe chest pain. He took two nitroglycerin tablets more than 1 hour ago with no relief. On further assessment the nurse notices that the patient is diaphoretic and also complains of feeling dizzy. The nurse would expect which diagnostic test or tests...

Select the hormone secreted when blood glucose is low which acts to increase blood levels back up to normal. - Glucagon Hyper (over) ventilation of the lungs due to anxiety and manifests as low blood carbon dioxide and acid levels along with corresponding increase blood pH. - Respiratory Alkalosi...