Definition Description Consciousness Our awareness of ourselves and our environment (can take different forms) Cognitive neuroscience The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception‚ thinking‚ memory and language) Dual processing The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious (deliberate‚ high road) and unconscious (automatic‚ low road) tracks. Selective attention The focusing of conscious awareness on
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CRUISE SHIP A cruise ship or cruise liner is a (usually very large) passenger ship used for pleasure voyages‚ where the voyage itself and the ship ’s amenities are part of the experience‚ as well as the different destinations along the way. Transportation is not the prime purpose‚ as cruise ships operate mostly on routes that return passengers to their originating port‚ so the ports of call are usually in a specified region of a continent. In contrast‚ dedicated transport oriented ocean liners
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Biological Science‚ 5e (Freeman) Chapter 1 Biology and the Tree of Life 1) Pasteur’s experiments proved that A) Cells cannot survive in swan necked flasks B) In order to grow‚ cells need to be supplied with oxygen C) Spontaneous generation can only occur if nutrient broth is left open to the environment D) Sterilizing nutrient broth prevents spontaneous generation E) Pre-existing cells present in the air can grow in sterilized nutrient broth Answer: E Bloom’s Taxonomy: Knowledge/Comprehension
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READING MATERIAL 1. Explain the three hypotheses for the recent changes in the toxicity of venom in different species of rattlesnakes found in the United States. - Interbreeding between snakes with different venom profiles. - Geographic distribution (genes shifted eastward) - Convolution - Old rattlesnakes have high concentration of toxic. 2. What is an “evolutionary arms race”? Describe how this applies to one of the hypotheses suggested to explain toxicity of venom in rattlers
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Introduction Masai Mara is "The" park of parks in Kenya. Its grass-carpeted smooth hills‚ the chocolate Mara river waters with frolicking hippos‚ as well as the rich faunal diversity‚ fulfill the expectations of any visitor searching the African landscapes portraited in motion pictures such as "Out of Africa" or "Mogambo". The Masai Mara is Kenya’s finest wildlife sanctuary . It is a large park reserve in south-western Kenya‚ which is effectively the northern continuation of the Serengeti
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kingdom school for seventh graders has three kids who were two year older than all the other kids. Since they were two years older‚ they were the cool kids on campus. The names of the cool kids were Jared the Jagare‚ Madison the Moose‚ and Gina the Giraffe. So that day Eli had tripped and fell into Madison. Madison got mad so she told Jarred and Gina to come help beat up Eli. Jared at first didn’t come‚ What the heck Eli thought he doesn’t want to beat me up. Just as Eli thought that Jarred came up
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Bridget Finnegan Ackerman‚ Diane. The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story. New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc.‚ 2007 368 pages To consider a story about the Holocaust to be lovely appears grotesque and ironic. However‚ Diane Ackerman’s non-fiction work The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story‚ begs to differ. Ackerman presents the true story of compassion and its polar opposite very wisely‚ and in an manner that manages to be both grim and exuberant. The tale to be told set Ackerman up for greatness
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starved to make them more fierce and the massacre more exciting but the hunters had shelters to retreat to and archers were positioned outside the arena so the hunters were seldom at real danger. In another kind of animal hunt‚ harmless animals such as giraffes and ostriches were hunted where the mere sight
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wouldn’t leave Bill’s mission incomplete- I would pick it up and carry it to victory. In my lifetime several large animals had just been described for the first time. These animals included the mountain gorilla and the velvet-coated cousin to the giraffe the okapi. The Roosevelts were successful in shooting a giant panda on April 13‚ 1929. Killing a panda brought glory‚ but capturing one alive would be a historic achievement. On Friday‚ April 17‚ 1936 I boarded the Dollar liner American Trader. When
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Civilization is a complex way of life that came about as people began to develop urban settlements. The earliest civilizations developed after 3000 BCE‚ when the rise of agriculture allowed people to have surplus food and economic stability. Agricultural populations advanced beyond village life‚ and many people no longer had to practice farming at all. Civilizations first appeared in Mesopotamia‚ in what is now Iraq‚ then in Egypt. Civilizations thrived in the Indus Valley by 2500 BCE‚ in China
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