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When describing the difference between sensation and perception in the slides, I gave you the example of the Yanny versus Laurel recording.  How does this recording show the difference between sensation and perception?  Be sure to define both terms.

You should have watched a video clip on change blindness.  Describe how the video clip showed change blindness.  Be specific about certain elements of the video so that it is clear that you watched the clip.

34. The motor cortex is concerned with voluntary movement and is located within the 

The transfer of heat from the body’s surface in contact with a cooler object is called

In order to define the location of a star in the night sky, you need to specify

What evidence did Aristotle offer for his argument that the Earth is a sphere?

Which theory suggests that dreams are our brain’s way of trying to make sense of random bursts of neural stimulation?

 Find  the “k” component for x

Imagine that we are ancients and we know that the earth is spherical because we have observed its shadow on the moon. In addition, we know that the earth rotates about its own axis because of the fact that we see day and night and the stars moving in circles around Polaris. After walking a distance of 50 km toward the north pole, we notice that the pole star is 1 degree higher in the sky. What is the circumference of our earth?

Read the following scenario to answer the following question(s).Malaria is a disease caused by parasitic protists in the genus Plasmodium. The parasite is transmitted to humans by female Anopheles mosquitoes. The Plasmodium parasite feeds on human red blood cells, eventually destroying them. Humans infected with malaria can exhibit many symptoms. Depending on the severity of the infection, these can range from fever, chills, sweating, and headaches to anemia and kidney failure. Ultimately, malaria can result in death. However, if time and money permit, once a person is infected, they can be treated with different antimalarial drugs. Two commonly used drugs are artemisinin and quinine. In addition, one way to prevent the spread of malaria is to apply pesticides to treat areas with Anopheles mosquitoes. The National Malaria Eradication Program began work in 1947 with the goal of eliminating malaria from the southern United States. In 1947, 15,000 cases of malaria were reported nationwide. By 1950, only 2,000 cases were reported, and by 1951, malaria was considered eradicated from the United States. Today, the disease is most common in Africa and South America, two continents that are highly impoverished. About one million people die from malaria every year, many of them children. In Africa, it is estimated that one in every five childhood deaths is due to malaria.A vector is an organism that transfers a pathogen to a host. In the case of malaria, the vector(s) is (are) ________.