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The _______________ nervous system is made up of neurons located in the brain and spinal cord; these neurons have almost no capacity to re-grow if damaged.

List the three parts of the personality according to Freud.

Why might teenagers shoplift, according to Jack Katz’s Seductions of Crime?

A graduate student is almost done with his dissertation when he is informed that twenty years ago someone did a similar project and already demonstrated what he had hoped to be the first to discover. What basic step of the scientific method should have saved him from this problem?

List the four lobes of the brain.

The Somatic System of the Peripheral Division of the nervous system is responsible for _______________.

The ________________ lobe is involved with interpreting and performing emotional behaviors, behaving normally in social situations, maintaining a healthy personality, paying attention, making decisions, and executing plans.

________ is the economic system that emerged during the Industrial Revolution.

Susan is a 32 year-old female, married with no children.  Her bird that she’d had for 7 years died, but she continues to put clean water in it cage every night.  According to Freud, what defense mechanism is Susan using to cope with her anxiety over the loss of her bird?

The thalamus _________________________________.