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Alicia has a St. Bernard dog named Moose. Alicia likes to give Moose doggy treats in the morning. Every time Alicia digs into the box of treats, Moose begins to salivate on the kitchen floor. In this example of classical conditioning, the sound of Alicia digging into the box of treats is which of the following?

Daus works as an air traffic controller. This is a very stressful job, so after work, Daus goes to the gym and takes a one-hour spin class where he rides a stationary bike to the point of exhaustion. In this example, being an air traffic controller is a __________ and the spin class is a _____________.

A friend asked Shala what kind of car she drove in high school. Shala thought about it and said, “It was an old blue Honda Civic.” Shala was using _________ memory.

Which of the following would not be considered an acute stressor?

Alexander and Amber went out Friday night and had a few beers and a couple of shots of whiskey. They both woke up early the next morning with a bad headache and severe thirst. This was because alcohol

A rat will naturally freeze if it gets a mild electric shock on its feet. If a tone is played before the shock, the rat will freeze when hearing the tone. In this example, the behavior of freezing when hearing a tone is the:

The idea that our body tries to keep a set point for such things as oxygen, sugar, water, and salt levels is known as:

A person goes on a crash diet and loses 20 pounds in six weeks. This drops their body’s fat levels very quickly. The idea that the body will work to get the body’s set point of fat back to a level before the diet is known as the:

Baroque artists like Caravaggio and Gentileschi used the technique known as tenebrism which means using thick layers of paint that show brushstrokes. (Read that again, carefully.) 

Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem” is an epigraph at the beginning of A Raisin in the Sun. What happens to a dream deferred?       Does it dry up       like a raisin in the sun?       Or fester like a sore—       And then run?       Does it stink like rotten meat?       Or crust and sugar over—       like a syrupy sweet?       Maybe it just sags       like a heavy load.       Or does it explode? How is the theme of this poem reflected in THE END of A Raisin in the Sun?