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Naomi and Rebecca often play pickup soccer together after school. Naomi has played soccer with Rebecca for over five years and knows that Rebecca is almost always incredibly kind and courteous to both her own teammates and to the opposing team’s players.  One day Naomi is walking to the soccer field with Brandi, who just started at the school that day and hasn’t yet met anyone at the school or seen anyone at the school play soccer. As they approach the soccer field, they see that a pickup game has already started. As they get closer, they can hear Rebecca screaming at another player in anger. Rebecca looks like she’s about to physically hit the other player, but a teammate pulls her away before she does so.  In this scenario, Brandi is likely to use _______________ information to make an attribution about Rebecca’s angry behavior. Because of this, she’s likely to make a ____________ attribution.               

Use the text below to answer questions 21-22 Nicole (biological sex: female) and Jason (biological sex: male) are camping in a tent in the Northwoods region of Wisconsin. In the middle of the night, they both suddenly awake to a crashing sound.  Nicole whispers to Jason, “I think there’s a bear outside our tent!”  21) What is the correct order in which key biological areas will become active in Jason’s body in response to this stressful situation?

Angie takes a drug for a heart condition that completely blocks her sympathetic nervous system. Despite this, she still has subjective feelings of emotion. For instance, if she is approached by a snarling angry dog, she’ll have the subjective internal experience of fear.  However, her heart rate and breathing rate won’t increase.  The fact that Angie’s sympathetic nervous system is blocked, but she still has subjective feelings of emotion is INCONSISTENT with what theory of emotion:  

Use the text below to answer questions 1-2 Mary-Anne is asked to write a short description of her college roommate, Marie, for her first-year English class. Mary-Anne wrote that, “Marie is very creative and curious. She is almost always working on a new painting or writing a new short story. Whenever she leaves the room, it’s to go see a new art exhibit or to hear new poetry being read.  When she goes to those types of exhibits or readings though, she always stands alone in the back of the room and never talks to anyone else. I can never get her to go to parties or to meet new people. She prefers to just stay in our room most nights and look up ways to improve her art.”  1) Based solely on the description above, Marie would most likely score HIGH along what Big-5 personality dimension?  

The primary damage to Phineas Gage’s brain was in the part marked _________ in the diagram below.

Based solely on the description above, Marie would most likely score LOW along what Big-5 personality dimension?  

Which of the reagent(s) shown can be used to carry out the given conversion?

Tiana is mildly allergic to cat hair. Whenever Tiana encounters cat hair, it automatically makes her feel really itchy and scratch her face. Tiana has a favorite University of Wisconsin blanket that her college roommate’s cat always gets hair on. As such, whenever Tiana uses the blanket herself, she starts scratching her face and feeling itchy.  Tiana goes to her parent’s house for winter break and she finds that her mother has bought her an identical University of Wisconsin blanket as the one Tiana has in her college apartment. However, as soon as Tiana uses it, even though her parents do not have any pets and there is no cat hair on the blanket, Tiana nonetheless starts scratching her face and feeling itchy.     In the example of classical conditioning above, the Tiana’s scratching in response to the blanket at her parent’s house is the: 

What is the predicted product of the reaction shown?  

Provide the reagents necessary to carry out the conversion shown.