A Researcher Is Using an Apparatus That Consists of a Glass-Topped

question 572

Multiple Choice

A researcher is using an apparatus that consists of a glass-topped table with one side having a checkered surface that lies directly beneath the glass with the other checkered surface being four feet below the glass surface causing the appearance of a drop-off. This apparatus is known as

• A)a Skinner box.
• B)a visual cliff.
• C)the Ames room.
• D)the Müller-Lyer illusion.

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Definitions:

Vertebrates

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Hemoglobin

A protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues of the body and returns carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs.

Antibodies

Proteins produced by the immune system that recognize and bind to specific foreign substances called antigens to neutralize or destroy them.

Histamine

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