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According to which election rule does the candidate with the most votes win, despite share of the votes? - ️️Plurality voting When a crosscutting issue splits the party-in-the-electorate, this is know as _______. - ️️party realignment What is a divided government? - ️️One or more houses of the legislature being controlled by the opposing party to the executive branch Which of the following changes when the parties realign? - ️️Brand In which Congress did the Senate become ...

What is the purpose of a filibuster? - ️️A parliamentary process to extend a debate on a piece of legislation with the intention of obstructing the debate What is descriptive representation? - ️️The extent to which a body of representatives represents the descriptive characteristics of their constituencies What are "safe seats" in a congressional district? - ️️Candidates from a particular party are highly likely to consistently win. What is the incumbency effect? - ️️...

Which of the following is term for the president using a public television address to apply pressure to legislators? - ️️Going public When does the rally around the flag effect occur? - ️️When the president's popularity spikes during an international crises Which president was the first to use Air Force One and fly across the nation to convey his message? - ️️Dwight D. Eisenhowe Which president is largely to blame for the application of "-gate" to scandals and controv...

Excitatory Synapse & Inhibitory Synapses - ️️In other words, it's not the neurotransmitter itself that is excitatory or Inhibitory, but rather the effect of that neurotransmitter that is excitatory or inhibitory at the receptor sites of a particular synapse. when the cell is semipermeable - ️️This means some substances that are outside the cell can enter through tiny protein openings, or channels, in the membrane, while other substances can go outside. Nervous System - ️️a ...

Cell lysis occurs - ️️when the final components create holes in the cell membrane and cause targeted cell death by membrane rupture. In autoimmune disorders, healthy tissue can be damaged by compliment activation and the resulting inflammatory response. Ex: RA and SLE. The compliment system is an - ️️enzyme cascade (C1-C9) consisting of pathways to mediate inflammation and destroy invading pathogens. Major functions of the compliment system are - ️️enhanced phagocytosis, incre...

In the Columbia Middle School study, ___ students felt quizzing increased their learning, while ___ said the quizzing reduced their anxiety over unit exams - ️️89% 64% Put in order the four stages of cognitive development according to Piaget - ️️Earliest Sensorimotor Preoperational Concrete operational Formal operational Latest The concept of learning styles is well supported by the literature and is crucial for students achievement - ️️False Events such as "Taco Night...

One's accumulated knowledge (e.g., of general psychology data) would highlight___intelligence. - ️️crystallized Jake is sympathetic and considerate of his friends' moods. He really identifies with their feelings and readily understands their point of view. He is well-known around campus, and he has great relationships with his classmates and professors. Which area of intelligence does this exemplify? - ️️intrapersonal Carmella believes her assistant, Lian, is incompetent. She...

A psychologist believes that college students who sleep 8 hours each night achieve better grades on their exams than those sleep less than this amount. He conducts a study to determine if this belief is true. what is the independent variable (IV) in this study? - ️️number of hours of sleep A psychologist wishes to ensure that both his experimental group and control group are as similar as possible (e.g., having equal numbers of males and females). He can achieve this by using: - ️️...

One reason why you want to create a formal "full sentence outline" is to make sure you have an idea of how much time it will take to present your speech. - ️️true Oral communication should be simple enough to be easily understood in the moment by a specific audience, without additional study or information. - ️️true If you want to improve your audience's perception of your speech, use familiar language because most speakers look more confident when they are comfortable with...

Dr. Akita is designing a test to measure sociability. She writes items that seem directly and obviously related to sociability, such as "I like to go to parties" or "I enjoy the company of other people." Which method of test construction is Dr. Akita using? - ️️C. Rational method Which of the following is NOT one of the conditions that must hold for an S-data personality test to work? - ️️D. The test must contain both positively and negatively worded items. Dr. Garcia ...

What is the value of social psychology research? - ️️teaches people how to interpret and predict the outcomes of various social experiences. Study results and findings help people understand their own behavior and that of others. Consensus - ️️refers to what most people would do in a given situation. Does everyone behave the same way in that situation, or do few other people behave that way? Is your friend one of a precious few who likes her statistics class, or do most students li...

Barbara just received a B on her test. She learns that one of her friends got an A on the same test, and another friend got a C. Later that night, Barbara tells her roommate that she did "really well" relative to other people in the class. According to social comparison theory, Barbara appears to have engaged in _______ comparison. - ️️Downward. What is the relationship between social influence and behavior? - ️️Social influence comprises the ways in which individuals change t...

how do men and women invest differently in their offspring and what is the reasoning behind it ? - ️️the 2 sexes have different costs and benefits associated with the nurturing of offspring, largely because the number of offspring a female can have over the course of her lifetime is limited differences in social psychology - ️️try to find answers to just such questions and also interested in how people make sense of their world, how they decide what and whom to believe, how they ma...

You overhear star wars fan say "all trekkies are socially awkward super nerds who live in their moms basements". This is an example of an in-group member making what kind of assumption? - ️️out group homogeneity A man thinks that he's attracted to a woman because his heart rate is up. But he's also standing on a suspension bridge, which explains his heart. Which theory of emotion explains his misattribution? - ️️two factor theory of emotion "No girls allowed in the c...

4 types of similarity that attract people - ️️demographic, attitude, attractiveness, and subject experience Gottoman and Levenson: What are the four behaviors? - ️️-Criticism (being overly critical toward partner) -Defensiveness (refusing to accept responsibility for conflicts) -Stonewalling (withdrawal from partner, refusal to interact emotionally) -Contempt (looking down on one's partner; especially predictive of the relationship ending when contempt from women is directed at...

subtyping - ️️a process whereby people come to view individuals who don't fit a stereotype as exceptions or as poor members of a group minimal group paradigm-do members of groups prefer their ingroup? - ️️flipping coins to separate people into groups based on meaningless things, such as color of eyes, and saw how they reacted. Physical features that signal health and reproductive fitness: - ️️Bilateral symmetry and average. Evolutionary theory of mate selection: what do wom...

Cerebral Spinal Assessment/Diagnostic Test - ️️Lumbar puncture to determine whether CSF pressure is elevated Requires consent form, sterile supplies Have patient bow back, staff must wear mask Patient must lay flat in bed for 1 hour afterwards Intracranial Pressure - ️️Normal ICP is 0-15 ICP greater than 20mm is emergent Caused by swelling in brain, increase in CSH, swelling, increase in blood flow Keep HOB between 20-30 degrees Brain tissue is compromised Afferent - ️️carr...

Overflow incontinence - ️️When bladder is too full. Occurs when their is poor contractility of the detrusor muscle or obstruction of the urethra as in prostate hypertrophy in male or genital prolapse in the female Nephrotoxic medications - ️️Aminoglycosides (gentamicin, streptomycin) Sulfonamides (trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole) Antifungals (amphotericin B) Antitubercular (rifampin) Cephalosporins Tetracyclines Misc. (vancomycin, polymyxin B) Ace inhibitors Antineoplastic (cisp...

Pancreatic Enzymes - ️️Amylayse Protease Trypsin Lipase Chymotrypsin Sodium Less than 130 mEq/L - ️️Neuro Assessment is priority Results in decrease in LOC Contributes to increase fluid access for fluid volume excess or renal failure when low sodium levels Low sodium not associated with dehydration Hepatitis B - ️️Vaccination against Hep B most effective way to prevent viral infection Protected sex prevents spread of Hep B Hepatoxicity - ️️Caused by overdose of aceta...

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