Chase was born four months premature. To help him develop normally, physicians gave him medications to promote lung development. As it turns out, these medications had the unfortunate side effect of damaging the structure that connects Chase’s ears to his brain. The result is that Chase has a 90-percent hearing loss. This form of hearing loss would be best described as __________.

Quentin is suffering from a disorder that causes him to have problems recognizing everyday objects. The other day he was looking at a wine glass and couldn’t come up with its name. He said to his wife, “I want one of those things that you hold the wine in,” but try as he did, he could not find the word glass. This demonstrates a form of visual __________.

The __________ is the illusory perception of movement produced by the successive flashing of images.

Information about __________ travels to the spinal cord and brain more quickly than information about ____________.

The REM stage of sleep occurs approximately every __________ during the night.

The white part of the eye is the __________.

Research finds that African Americans sleep less-and less well-than White Americans. Some may feel that this is caused by genetics, while others suggest that factors like social class and education may contribute to the difference. Another idea suggests that the stressors of being a minority may also affect sleep. These various ideas are an important example of __________.

The old game show Let’s Make a Deal offered contestants the choice between a visible prize, usually cash, or the prize hidden behind one of three doors. Which of the following abilities would be most useful to those contestants?

What relatively rare sleep disorder involves people acting out the movements and events of their dreams?

According to your authors, one reason why people continue to believe in the existence of ESP is that __________.