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Asia is an avid reader. Let’s face it, she don’t play when it comes to learning, similar to many of you. She is conducting research designed to try to come up with AI programs that can detect when students are engaging in behaviors inconsistent with success in the class. In entering data at the end of each day, the app makes recommendations to the students regarding how to act in ways more consistent with times when their grades were higher. Asia spent years developing the software and deciding which behaviors to measure as far as identifying things likely to predict success for college students. The app has been tested, it works, and Asia is ready to do her study. Asia expects that those who use the Perusier Organization System will have higher grade point averages next semester than those who do not. At what stage of the scientific method is Asia at?

Seven-year-old Samantha suffered trauma to the language centers in the left hemisphere of her brain as a result of a bicycle accident. Although she did have some language deficits after the trauma, she eventually was able to recover much of what she’d lost because new growth in nonaffected areas of the brain made up for the damage. The ability to recover from brain trauma in this fashion is an example of

How do hormones reach their target destination after they are released from endocrine glands?

Neural communication begins when there is sufficient __________ of a neuron to create __________, which causes neurotransmitters to be released into the synapse.

The communication system that uses hormones to influence thoughts and actions is called the __________ system.

The lower parts of the brain function primarily in __________, whereas the outer layer of the brain functions mainly in __________.

Kelvin is pitching for his high school baseball team. He has mastered the art of the curveball and knows just how to twist his fingers around the seam of the baseball to make the pitch work. The part of the nervous system that helps him feel the seams on the baseball and control his fingers to throw the curveball properly is the __________ nervous system.

Cardelia is visiting the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland, and is watching the seahorses swim with various fish. She begins thinking about the human brain and remembers that one major structure, which is important in the formation of new memories, gets its name because it is shaped like a seahorse. Which brain structure is Cardelia thinking of?

After his stroke, Brian slowly recovered function in his right arm. The property of the brain that supports learning and recovery of functions lost after brain trauma and that reflects the interactive nature of biological and environmental influences is called

Nakila was born totally deaf. She has never been able to hear a sound. Her physicians note that the structures of her ears are all fine, as are the auditory nerves that send sound information to the brain. “There must be a problem with the __________ lobes, which contain the auditory cortex,” the physicians report to Nakila’s parents.