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If your __________ is damaged, you might walk oddly and have trouble standing normally.

GABA functions as __________.

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

In studying the bystander effect, a researcher is interested in looking at differences between prison guards in China and the United Kingdom. The researcher is taking a(n) __________ perspective in this cross-cultural study.

Xander decided to learn how to wrestle. On his first day of practice, a seasoned wrestler slammed the back of Xander’s head to the mat. He was shaken and reported to the trainer that he “saw stars” after he hit his head. It is likely that Xander’s __________ was temporarily affected as a result of the slam and caused him to “see stars.”

A nerve is a group of __________ bundled together.

On a popular podcast, an actor describes the symptoms of anxiety he has been experiencing. He reports that the severity of the symptoms has decreased since he has been taking a drug prescribed by his therapist back in Hollywood. You conclude that the actor’s therapist is probably a __________.

Khalif is in the hospital and is about to undergo a brain-imaging process that involves placing him inside a magnetic field so that a computer can create three-dimensional images of his brain. What procedure is he about to undergo?

Two groups of graduate students were given rats and instructed to teach the rats how to run mazes. Group 1 was told that they had “very smart” rats that should learn quickly. Group 2 was told that they had “very stupid” rats that should learn slowly. In actuality, neither group was any different, and the rats were randomly assigned. In spite of that, when the experiment concluded, the rats taught by Group 1 had learned the maze much more quickly. How can that be explained?

Unintended changes in participants’ behavior due to cues inadvertently given by the experimenter are called __________.