Did you know you can catch a mood? A badmood isn't spread by a virus like the ______is, but it can be_______. Moodssort of drift from person to person unconsciously --- slight, unintentionalsignals carry the mood. You've probably experienced it yours...
Today we're going to talk about shyness anddiscuss recent research on ways to help children learn to_______ socially. Many people consider themselves shy. Infact, forty percent of people who took part in our survey said they were shy--- that's two ou...
Do you have trouble sleeping at night? Then maybe this is for you. When you worry about needing sleep and toss and turn trying to find a comfortable ________, you're probably only making matters worse. What happens when you do that, is that your hear...
In our lab today, we'll be testing the ______ that babied can count as early as five months of age. The six babies here are all less than six months old. You'll be watching them on closed-circuit TV and measuring their responses. The experiment is ba...
If you liked the colorful animals we just saw, you're going to love these next animals. Frogs. You might not normally think of frogs as being colorful, but these frogs definitely are. They are the dart-poison frogs of Central and South America. Look...
Now we're entering Kangaroo Country. In all, there are more than fifty different species of kangaroo, and the advantage of zoos like ours is that you see them in their natural _______. The ones we have all live in the grasslands. On my right, you can...
Today I want to talk to you about _______ and their nests. You'll recall that biologists divide species of wasps into two groups: _______ and social. Solitary wasps, as the name ______,do not live together with other wasps. In most species the male a...
OK. In the last class we talked about the _______ of trees, and we ended up with a basic description of angiosperms. You remember that those are plants with true flowers and seeds that develop inside fruits. The common ______ trees we have on campus...
This room is ______ to electric fish. The eel in the tank behind me can produce a strong ______ of electricity to stun its prey, but most of the fish in here produce only weak electrical ______ that are useful for ________, locating food, and even fo...
Before I tell you about the interesting ______ related to Tyrannosaurus rex, I need to review something we studied last semester --- the difference between what are commonly called cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals. In warm-blooded animals, birds...
