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Bernard opens the pantry to find a midnight snack. After a moment, the light bulb burns out, and he can’t see any more. He gets turned around in the darkness, but still wants a snack. According to the Spatial Framework Model, Bernard should be fastest to find                                            and slowest to find                                            .

Name the famous microbiologist who produced the first laboratory-developed vaccine: the vaccine for chicken cholera. He happened upon the method of attenuation by accident. In his lab, he was studying fowl cholera by injecting chickens with the live bacteria and recording the illness progression. He had instructed an assistant to inject the chickens with a fresh culture of the bacteria before a holiday. The assistant, however, forgot. When the assistant returned a month later, he injected the chickens with month-old cultures. The chickens, while showing mild signs of the disease, survived. When they were healthy again, they injected them with fresh bacteria. The chickens did not become ill.

A man experiences a stroke that damages part of his brain. After the stroke, his wife would regularly put a plate of food in front of him, but he would only eat food on one side of the plate. He can see just fine, but he fails to notice things on one side of his visual field. Also, when scientists did tests on him, they would ask him to draw a picture of the beach. He would include small features like a beach umbrella but would miss the big features like the stretch of sand and water that form the coastline. Which of the following brain regions is the damage from the stroke most likely located?

_____infections are caused by a microbe that invades because of the weakened defenses due to an infection by a different agent. (I10)

In Treisman’s model of attention, what happens to an unattended message?

Which type of hemolysis results in a completely clear halo in the blood agar around a colony? (I16)

Which word would someone with depression most likely respond to the slowest during the emotional Stroop Task?

What specific reasons do researchers and governments give to warn drivers against cell phone use?

Sensory memory begins to fade                                             .

Define epidemiology: (I11)