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Janice is a neurologist. Her newest patient recently suffered damage to one specific part of his brain in an accident. The patient reported being completely normal prior to the accident. But now, after the accident, he indicates that he can no longer see objects moving in the world. Instead, he says that the world looks like a series of still images presented one after another. Janice has the patient complete a huge number of perceptual tests. She also does several scans of his brain to finely delineate the area of the brain that had been damaged. What type of study has Janice conducted?

Your patient has a hearing aid on but still cannot hear you, what should you do first?

When caring for a resident with left sided weakness, you should…

When doing CPR on an adult victim the breaths to chest compressions ratio is…

When assisting a person with burns…

Britain is a neurologist seeing a patient who recently had a stroke. Britain asks, “What brings you here to me today?” The patient responds, “Hard…brain…stroke…words.” Throughout the interview, the patient clearly understands what Britain is asking, but seems to have trouble getting speech out. Based on the information above, the most likely site of the patient’s brain damage is indicated by the letter ______ in the image below.

Darryl, a male, and Denise, a female, are watching an incredibly frightening movie that is set in a grocery store that they both shop at in their hometown. If you took a blood sample before the start of the movie and then again halfway through the movie, you would expect to find elevated levels of _________ and _________ in both individuals halfway through the movie as compared to before the movie, but elevated levels of ___________ only in Denise.

A farmer feeds his pigs every day at exactly 5 AM in the barn. The pigs don’t show much interest in the barn for most of the day. However, at about 4:30 AM, they start to look into the barn. They do so more and more frequently until 5 AM comes and they’re fed. This is an example of what type of reinforcement schedule?

You know that Kristin has a measured IQ score of 145. Knowing nothing else about her, and all other things being equal, which of the following is MOST likely?

If you don’t know anything more about the individuals than what is listed below, who would you expect to have the LOWEST measured intelligence score?