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“Open-book on the course materials” for these exams means:

A 24-year-old patient presents with episodic wheezing, chest tightness, and cough that worsens at night and with exercise. Lung exam reveals expiratory wheezes that resolve after albuterol use. Which diagnosis is most consistent with this presentation?

An adolescent with cystic fibrosis reports increasing fatigue and dyspnea. Pulmonary function tests show declining lung function. Which intervention is most important to prioritize in managing this patient?

Opponents of multitasking would most likely argue that performing multiple tasks simultaneously leads to:

Suppose twin teenagers are competing for their mother’s attention. The mother is trying to pay attention to one of her daughters, though both girls are talking (one about her boyfriend, one about a school project). According to the operating characteristics of Treisman’s attenuator, the attenuator is most likely analyzing the incoming message in terms of what?

Colin Cherry’s experiment in which participants listened to two different messages – one presented to each ear – found that people could focus on: 

A cyclist is focused on the traffic light ahead and does not notice a pedestrian in a bright orange jacket stepping onto the crosswalk. What phenomenon best explains this?

What is meant by the term ecological collapse?

What is inbreeding and how does it affect a species’ fitness?

In sociable weavers of the African savanna, optimal body mass is a trade-off between risk of starvation and predation. Birds that are fatter have low starvation risk but high predation risk. Birds that are thinner have low predation risk but high starvation risk. Therefore, the birds of medium weight are better adapted to their environment (graphed below). This is an example of what type of selection?