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What are two roles of glial cells?

When a neuron fires, it fires in a(n) __________ fashion, as there is no such thing as “partial” firing.

Which of the following statements about myelin is TRUE?

Casey is putting mustard on her hot dog. She realizes she has put too much and sucks up some of it back into the squeeze bottle. This process is similar to __________.

Critical thinking means making judgments based on __________.

The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov discovered that dogs would salivate to the sound of a ticking metronome due to __________.

__________ is a brain-imaging method that takes computer-controlled X-rays of the brain.

Hunter is a fan of the Boston Celtics basketball team. With little provocation, he will engage his friends in a debate about whether it is the greatest team in basketball. Hunter may be demonstrating __________.

The part of the occipital lobe that is responsible for receiving visual information from the eyes is called the __________.

The school of psychology known as structuralism used a technique called __________, which involved reporting the contents of consciousness to study a person’s experiences.