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Explain 1 benefit of using a functional classification system to describe a plant community, and 1 benefit to using the phylogenetic system to describe a plant community. As part of your answer, explain the difference between functional and phylogenetic classifications of plants. 

Lightning is usually followed by thunder. Eventually, one can be startled by the lightning alone. The unconditioned response is being:

Subjects are given two drinks but not told what they are drinking in order to get accurate results on which is the better tasting one. Yet the experimenter knows which drink they are getting. This is an example of what type of experimental design?

Which statement is TRUE about cochlear implants?

Which is an example of appetitive conditioning?

If a researcher uses an EEG to measure the brain’s response to a visual stimulus, neurons other than those that respond to visual stimuli will also be active. How do researchers determine which neurons are responding only to the visual stimulus?

In mammals, the two sites where information about the CS–US association can be stored in the cerebellum are the _____ and the _____.

Yvonne believes that babies learn words by being rewarded for sounds that sound like those words in response to something they hear. This idea resembles the ideas of:

The structure that sits at the base of the brain is known as the:

Suppose a person repeatedly plays a low-pitched tone to a rat. Which statement would demonstrate dishabituation in the rat?