“The reward feels good, and we keep doing what others want us to do in order to get the reward. With the fear of being punished and that fear of not getting the reward, we start pretending to be what we are not, just to please others, just to be good enough for someone else.” (The Four Agreements). In psychological terminology, what is feeling FEAR?

Learning not to have sad nostalgic thoughts about your ex, by using aversion treatment (i.e. smelling a rotten egg whenever you think of your ex) is an example of:

Raj is a participant in a memory experiment. He is asked to learn a list of 30 words of common objects, in order. The experimenter finds that Raj remembers best the words at the beginning and end of the list. The psychological term for this phenomenon is:

Julio served in the war in Afganistan and was severely traumatized when a rocket propelled grenade exploded next to his Humvee. Recently, Julio was studying in the library and a large book fell off a high shelf and banged on the floor. The noise brought Julio instantly to his feet. In terms of classical conditioning, his response can best be explained by:

A healthy woman has two previous pregnancies that ended early because the fetuses developed a severe mtDNA disorder. In order to increase the chance of having a healthy baby without a mtDNA disorder, her medical team recommends a new approach for the woman. They recommend:

A, B and C are linked genes. Recombination between A and B is 3%; between A and C is 6%; and between B and C is 9%. What is the order of these genes on the chromosome?

Jane is a patient. Her brother Greg has neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, also known as Batten disease. It is autosomal recessive, and its symptoms include vision loss, loss of coordination, dementia and seizures. Jane is healthy as are her parents and grandparents. Jane is thinking of having children. She wants to know the percent chance that her child would be a carrier for Batten Disease (in other words, the probability that Jane is a carrier and that her child will inherit the recessive allele). Since Batten disease is very rare, we will assume that the father of Jane’s child is not affected nor a carrier.

How could an individual have a trisomy?

A patient is experiencing extreme fatigue, muscle weakness, and poor eyesight. The symptoms are consistent with a mitochondrial disorder, but the patient’s mother is healthy. Select a plausible explanation(s). Choose all that apply.

A heart muscle cell in a dog has a total of 78 chromosomes. How many chromosomes per daughter cell following mitosis?