Patients unable to feel pain frequently die due to injuries they did not know they had, or performing risky behaviors that would severely hurt other people. This disease, called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain, can be caused by
a. Mutated, non-functioning sodium channels in pain neurons
b. Elevated endorphin levels
c. Mutation of a gene responsible for generating pain fibers
d. All of the above
D
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a) development of drug combinations that retard HIV activity b) development of genetically-altered forms of HIV that can reduce its rate of reproduction in the body c) use of experimental treatments in which the blood is heated to kill HIV before it is returned to the body d) use of a combination of surgical interventions and dietary changes that lower the rate of HIV development
____ is the type of intelligence that involves information processing abilities such as short-term memory, ability to discern relations between visual stimuli, and speed of synthesizing new information, whereas ____ represents the accumulation of a person's culturally based knowledge, language, and understanding of social conventions.
a. Fluid intelligence; crystallized intelligence b. Crystallized intelligence; fluid intelligence c. Multiple intelligence; G intelligence d. G intelligence; multiple intelligence