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Toussaint L’Ouverture leader of slave rebellion on the French sugar island of St. Domingue in 1791; led to creation of independent republic of Haiti in 1804 Ferdinand VII deposed Spanish…

What is the ultimate source of genetic variation? mutations What is a mutation? any change in the nucleotide sequence of DNA Why are mutations important? 1. basic requirement for evolution-source…

The statement that “culture is the complex whole” was made by: Edward B. Tylor Which discipline defines itself as “the systematic study of human society?” sociology What is the term…

For administrative purposes in the Old Kingdom Egypt was Divided into provinces called nomes Old kingdom Egypt’s stability was due to all of the following factors except which one? Large…

Subjective: This 17-year-old patient presents to the emergency department after racing motorcycles earlier today. He had his helmet on as well as all of his racing gear. He actively races…

personality The unique and relatively stable way in which each individual thinks, acts, and feels is humanistic perspective Which theory of personality was a direct reaction against the psychoanalytic and…

sociology -the scientific study of social behavior and human groups. -Focuses on social relationships, how those relationships influence people’s behavior and how societies (the sum total of those relationships) develop…

In World War II, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions. In World War II, one of…

camera obscura a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface camera lucida an optical device consisting of…

A threat to internal validity occurs only if a potential design confound varies ________ with the independent variable. Systematically An independent-groups design is also known as a ________. Between-subject design…

Cyrus first great ruler of the Achaemenid Empire Darius brought the height of the Achaemenid Empire Persepolis the new capital established by Darius Tribute Annual gifts Standardized coins An easier…

classical economics used to refer to an era in the history of economic thought that stretched from 1750-early 1900s. believed in Say’s law, that markets are competitive, and that prices…

Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe; deep moral conviction; displayed humanity and suffering of slaves; featured agonies of slave families and mother’s journey of…

Judiciary Act of 1789 law that set up the federal court system Alexander Hamilton An early Federalist leader and first secretary of the treasury. He was killed in a duel…

industrial revolution the shift, beginning in England during the 18th century, from making goods by hand to making them by machine crop rotation the system of growing a different crop…

What is the rule for positive/negative reinforcement/punishment?Positive = begins Negative = ends Reinforcement = strengthens Punishment = weakensWhat is a “fixed-ratio” schedule of reinforcement?Reinforcement occurs after a specific number of…

learningrelatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge as a function of experiencecontiguitycondition in which 2 events occur at the same time i.e. classical conditioning or associate learningclassical conditioningassociation of automatic…

learninga relatively permanent change in an organisms behavior due to experiencehabituationdecreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulationassociative learninglearning that certain events go togetherclassical conditioninga type of learning in which one learns to…

1engage2explore3explain4extend5evaluatethis step builds interest and curiosity in the big idea or major concepts of the lessonengagethis step encourages students to test their predictions and hypotheses to the driving questionexplorethis step…

reaction time apparatusreaction time from stimulus to responsekinesthesiometersense of position of movementlinear slidememory of position and movementbassin timeranticipation timefitz tapping tasktime between tapping two platesburmese trianglestrategy acquisitionpursuit rotorvarious practice speeds…