PSY 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Otto Loewi, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Cognitive Psychology
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Note: these are not questions that will appear on the exam. However, they are like the questions that will appear on the exam. T / f cones greatly outnumber rods in the fovea of the retina. T / f otto loewi discovered the chemical basis of neurotransmission using frog hearts. T / f rene descartes discovered the electrical basis of neurotransmission using severed frog legs. T / f the brain is 2% of body weight and uses about 20% of body metabolism. The extent to which results from the laboratory apply to the real world is referred to as. When you define a phenomenon by the way you observe and measure it you ____________________: make it a universal statement of fact, objectify it, rationalize it, operationalize it. ____________________ are particularly sensitive to color: feature detectors, rods, cones, bipolar cells. Individuals with retinitis pigmentosa suffer from ____________________: color blindness, night blindness, blindness, invisibility.
