Online Final Exam
Exam Instructions: You may choose to answer any 6 of the 9 essay questions. Each essay is worth up to 10 points each. The bonus extra credit essay question is optional and also worth up to 10 points. The bonus question is NOT part of your exam score. You must answer any 6. Be sure to upload your exam early to the Canvas drop box to check for originality. This exam should be submitted in essay form with an introduction, body and conclusion for each prompt. Include the prompts in your essays. As always be sure to check for spelling and grammatical errors prior to submission. You may only submit this single document in word only once. Subsequent submissions will take up to 24 hours to process and first submissions will be deleted.
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**Bonus Essay Question** Optional Up to 10 Extra Credit Points
Describe and discuss two important ideas that have emerged from research on the effects of stress on health. Explain the research that led to each idea and why it is important. Use APA format.
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Describe the conditioned taste aversion phenomenon and how it changed how researchers thought about learning.
Discuss the human genome project and its major findings. What research has been stimulated by the major finding of the human genome project?
3. There are several kinds of glial cells in the nervous system. Describe them and their functions. How is our understanding of glial cells currently changing?
4. Discuss three ways that drugs produce agonistic effects and three ways that they produce antagonistic effects. Provide specific examples.
5. Discuss Korsakoff’s syndrome and the amnesia associated with it. What areas of the brain have been linked to Korsakoff’s syndrome, and what is the evidence for these links?
6. What is LTP? Why is LTP so interesting to researchers? Describe a specific demonstration of LTP at a hippocampal site of your choice. Include a diagram if possible.
7. Discuss the case of David Reimer, the twin who lost his penis. How was his condition treated? Was the treatment effective? What can we learn from this case? Describe two major points?
8. Describe the ground-breaking study of Myers and Sperry on split-brain cats. Explain why it has been so influential, and describe three of its contributions.
please use readings from https://revel-ise.pearson.com/courses/630a4e50093a8566d41c4680/dashboard,and https://library.ccsf.edu/.Thank you!
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