Summer has noticed that when her alarm clock goes off in the morning, her dog, Alfie, is standing by her bed salivating. This is because she immediately rolls out of bed and feeds Alfie, who very much enjoys his canned dog food. It is likely that Summer has conditioned Alfie to __________.

The emerging field of brain imagery in cognitive neuroscience has developed methods such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine __________.

The question “What is happening?” refers to which of the following goals in psychology?

The term “fire” when referring to neural transmission indicates that a neuron __________.

The structuralists were important in the history of psychology because they __________.

Which part of a neuron is attached to the soma and carries messages out to other cells?

If an individual believed that why people think and feel as they do is more important than what they think and how they think, that individual would be a proponent of the __________ approach to psychology.

The school of psychology known as structuralism used a technique called __________, which involved reporting the contents of consciousness to study a person’s experiences.

Which psychologist was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in educational psychology in 1925?

Phineas Gage tragically had a tamping iron propelled through his head. Both left and right sides of the prefrontal cortex were severely damaged. As a result of the accident, Phineas Gage __________.