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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)

What is herd immunity? (I11)

Below, you will find descriptions of several contributions made by influential psychologists in the past 150 years. Choose the psychologist (or group of psychologists) that made the contribution. Each psychologist may be used once, more than once, or not at all.