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During a recent study session, your friend asks you to explain what the locus coeruleus does. You explain the locus coeruleus is part of the hindbrain responsible for ____.
 
  a. emotional response
  b. sexual arousal
  c. balance
  d. directing attention

Question 2

Trisha is gradually developing an impairment in her ability to perform finely coordinated movements, such as cutting a clove of garlic into very small pieces. Doctors will probably discover a problem in her ____.
 
  a. medulla oblongata
  b. hypothalamus
  c. cerebellum
  d. amygdala



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
d

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
c



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