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What branch of the peripheral nervous system is the adrenal medulla apart of?

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Sympathetic autonomic system

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What does the adrenal cortex secret

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Steroid hormones

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What does the adrenal medulla secret

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Catecholamines

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Competitive Inhibition

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  • Binds to active site
  • increases Km
  • no change to vmax
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Non-competitive inhibition

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  • Binds to allosteric site of enzyme
  • no change to Km
  • decreases vmax
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Mixed inhibition

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  • Binds to allosteric site both
  • Increases or decreases Km
  • decreases Vmax
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Uncompetitive Inhibition

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  • Binds to allosteric site of complex
  • decreases Km
  • Decreases Vmax
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Def: Osmotic Pressure

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The minimum pressure that must be applied to a solution to halt the flow of solvent molecules through a semipermeable membrane

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How does osmotic pressure relate to solute concentration

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Directly proportional

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Gene Imprinting

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Parent-specific transmission of traits are due to gene imprinting, which is an epigenetic process

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Body temperature

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37 degrees Celsius

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Body pH

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7.4ish

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Centration

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The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem and neglect other important aspects

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Procedural Memory

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Memory for motor skills and habits

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Semantic Memory

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Facts and knowledge

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Episodic Memory

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personal experience

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Social Construction of race

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the idea that there is little logical basis for race. Instead categories mostly result from history, culture and society

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Groupthink

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when members of a cohesive group emphasize agreement at the expense of critical thinking when arriving to a decision

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Assimilation

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The incorporation of new information into an existing schema

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Conflict Theory

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Focuses on social institutions that maintain social inequalities

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Period effects

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The impact of certain periods in all cohorts

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Cohort effects

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Distinct life experience based on their place in history

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Self-Verification

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the tendency to seek out information that is consistent with one’s self-concept

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Self-serving bias

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Making situational attributions for personally experienced negative outcomes and dispositional ones for positive outcomes

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Serotonin
Regulates mood and appetite
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Endorphins
Associated with feelings of wellbeing rather than aggression
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GABA role in mood
Associated with Anxiety
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Incentive theory
Focuses on the role that extrinsic motivators play in shaping behaviour
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Drive theory
Drive is a motivational state caused by psychological or physiological needs
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Expectancy-Value Theory
Focuses on how motivation varies depending on how a person evaluates their likelihood of success at an activity
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Self-determination theory
Focuses on the innate need or psychological growth
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Latent Function
An unintended positive outcome of a social practice
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How are different wave properties effected by changing mediums?
- Frequency remains unchanged - Wave speed and amplitude vary based on medium - Change in wave speed causes change in wave length
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Hydrogen Bonding
Special type of dipole-dipole attraction between molecules that results from the attractive force between a hydrogen and a covalent bonded to a very electronegative atom and another very electronegative atom
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Salt bridges
Interactions of amino acids with opposite charges
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What is the ideal gas law
PV=nRT
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Heat of combustion
The amount of heat liberated when a given amount of substance undergoes combustion
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How does heat of combustion relate to stability
Inversely related
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How to calculate capacitance using charge
C=Q/V
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What occurs at the Anode and cathod
Reduction and oxidation respectivley
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Order of functional group polarity
Ketone: can accept but not donate H bonds Alcohol: can accept and donate H bonds Carboxylic acid: two points of interaction
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How are phosphorus labeled in ATP
Alpha, Beta, gamma
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Venturi Effect
Air pressure is the sum of the static pressure and flow pressure
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Coordinate Covalent
Both electrons are donated by the same molecule
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Coordination number
The number of atoms bonded to a central atom
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What type of lens has a negative focal length
Diverging lens
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Purine
2 rings A and G
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Pyrimidines
1 ring C T U
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Golgi Apparatus
Process and package proteins and lipids
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Lysosomes
Digest particles that are pulled through the process of endocytosis
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Endoplasmic Reticulum
Synthesis and transport of various organic molecuels
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Prion
Misfolded variants of a protein that can cause misfolding when interacting with normally folded variants of the same protein
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Centrosome
Primary microtubule organizing center of a cell
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Meritocracy
The holding of power by people selected based on their ability
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Socialization
The learning of social acceptable values and behaviours
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Absolute Poverty
An economic condition in which individuals cannot meet their basic needs
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Marginal Poverty
Unstable employment condition for an individual in which they cannot achieve minimum standards of living
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Relative Poverty
Social disadvantage by income or wealth as compared to the social advantages linked to income or wealth in society
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Structural poverty
A lack of economic opportunities for individuals to leave poverty
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Attribution error
when behaviour is mistakenly attributed in an incorrect source
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Social Desirability
The tendency for participants to give responses which they think are more socially acceptable instead of choosing the responses which are reflective of their true feelings
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Stereotype threat
Apprehension about confirming negative stereotypes related to a persons own group
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Stratification
Certain communities experience unequal access to resources and opportunities in a society
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Gentrification
The displacement of low-income residents in a neighborhood due to increasing poverty value
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Heisenberg principle
One cannot know both the momentum and position of an object with absolute certainty
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Le Chateliers principle
The application of stress to the system will cause the system to responsed in a way that relieves that stress
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Paulo Exclusion Principle
Two or more identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state
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How are water solubility and polarity related
Water solubility increases as polarity increases and with more H bond donors because water can form more bonds with the molecule
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How much space does 1 molecule of gas occupy at STP 1
22.4L
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Reaction Formation
Minimizing uncomfortable thoughts or emotions by overemphasizing their opposite
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Emotional Displacement
Shifting the focus of emotion from a less to more acceptable target
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Perceptual Constancy
The tendency to experience a stable perception even as sensory input is changing
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Ethnographic
Qualitative method of to make in person observations in a cultural setting over an extended period of time
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Cultural Relativism
Evaluating the cultural practices of a different society not from one's own cultural perspectives but from the society's perspective
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Cultural Diffusion
Mutual exchange of cultural values and practices among societies
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Boiling point
Vapor pressure is equal to atmospheric pressure
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Oligarchy
Small number of individuals hold the majority of the power
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How can you predict boiling point?
Compare strength of intermolecular forces
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Instinctual Drift
The tendency of some untrained animals to revert back to instinctual behaviours
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Snell's Law
There is an inverse relationship between the index of refraction and the sin of the angle of refraction
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Alpha Decay
- Emission of alpha-particle - -2 atomic number and -4 mass
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Beta negative Decay
- Neutron is converted to a proton - electron is released - +1 atomic number
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Beta Positive Decay
- Proton converted to neutron - positron released - -1 atomic number
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Gamma Decay
Photons released, decreasing energy
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Electron Capture
- Electron combines with a proton to create a neutron - Atomic number -1 - Mass number stays same

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