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This white, fatty substance insulates axons, facilitating transmission of neural impulses.

When a patient insists on having a medical cure but a physician does not believe that medicine is necessary, the physician may prescribe sugar pills. Such fake pills are called _________________.

Why is Phineas Gage well known in the psychological community?

Nature is to ________, as Nurture is to ________?

Which of the following is a neurotransmitter – chemical substance involved in the transmission of neural impulses from one neuron to another?

What part of the brain is considered the wrinkled surface area (gray matter) of the cerebrum? According to the book, this “is the part of the brain that you usually think of as your brain.”

A participant’s agreement to participate in research after receiving information about the purposes of the study and the nature of the treatments is known as (a/an) _________________?

_______________is defined as a way of evaluating the claims and comments of other people that involves skepticism and examination of evidence.

One of the advantages of _______________ is that by distributing questionnaires and analyzing answers with a computer, psychologists can study many thousands of people at a time.

Which of the following is not included in the peripheral nervous system?